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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY
TRIUSTES" "ADVENTURES, abend causing general satisfaction. The Low ther Grange continued to low throughout the day,
THRILLING STORY OF HEROISH AT SEA:
9a0 MILES WITHI, SAILS.. ››
juna 30: Dirty monsoon weather continued, but the Lowker Grange continued to low us until the alternoon, when wa, were withla zo miləɛ of Bombay and the line broke.
ARMED ROBBERY AT SHATIN.
EXEMPLARY BENTENCES BY THE....
PUISNE JUDGE
19th lust,
reply tank at the railway cxpansion. ; Inok at the sem borne trade, all wanting conf" 7 be vital pelor of the Taspension of the pancre export was obscured in the daily increase of share values and in the rush to borrow, money and obtain new Conl shares. Suddenly, with out noise, the prohibition of the export of Japan coat was withdrawn, and in a few weeks He shares came tumbling in price, like a pack, of cards, and most of the new companies' shares are now usesizablo,
JULY 22 1910.
SORROWS OF A BORROWERSU. THE Lightning left Chittagong on the 8th fast. and was expected to arrive at Penang on the
zib.
APPLICATION TO INCREASE INSTALMENTI
sand lost.
Beto. Mr. Justica Hazeland, Acting Polana Jadge, in the Summary Court this morning, Mr. Gardiner, made an application (or no ius Crease of the Justatmeals which were ordered by the Court to be paid by an aged Chin, so
WOMADA
Mr Haris-My client is already paying los stimants to the plalatiff on another judgment. Mr. Gardiner-She has been signing these decamantaladiscriminately. She borrowed the money whenever she required it.
Mr. Harris-The a money-lenders faksTM certain amount of risk..
Mr. Gardiner-The defendent can pay the money.
Mr. Hamels-Will your. Lordship graaťmy client bis mo?
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Stx weeks hard labour was awarded a native at the Magistracy on Wednesday for stealing a bundle of cloibing.
H.M.S. Tamar shifted her moorings to the No. Boy on Toeiday afternoon, just to have her monrings seen to as usual,
THE Peking Government.states that it does not intend to appoint a successor to Su Walker Hilller, Foreign Advisor to the Waiwapu,
THE many
any friends of Commander Heard of 1.1.3. Cadmus will be glad to leard that he has been promoted, to the rank of Captain, - WITH a full cargo of cement to Mesits, Smith, Bell and Company, Ltd., the steamer Atlantis
it appears that, after leaving-Aden on Juna 4, all went well with the Trivite till half-past- eight at night when she snapped ber shaft, and then travelled 910 mlios with the aid of sails in a difficult·ses. Os the evening of June 23, sho
The le notascient history; frelsall, the sighted a steamer which was attracted by the
happening of the last three years. And the firiog, of rockets: She tained on to be tha
object-lesson is that even how the older and 3 Lowther, Range. After several unsuccess
better class Coal shares are returning to fal attempts to pass a rope the two vessels
Before Mr. Justice Hazeland, Acting Fl'aigne per cent, on money invested in them at the top ventually made fast and the Triests was taken in tow. During these operations the Judge, at the Criminal Sessions this morning of the boom prices, while, if the big dividends four Chinese ware indicted os charges of arm-received, during the boom be offset against the second engineer of the Lowther Range Wed robbery in the village of Shatin, Mr. O. G. high prices paid, the retere upon the capital washed overboard, the chief engineer's collar
lavested becomes appreciably greater. The boue was broken and several of the crew were labaster, instructed by Mr. H. L. Dannys, jr Ing with the Lowther Range in attendance, its behalf of the Attorney General, while the selling at slump prices, so you can understand these returas will be consideably augmented was found she bad got as far south of the Lac prisoners were undefended.
Mr. Alabaster outlined the facts of the whed the supply of and demand for coal have
·“cadiva Islands." She was towed by the Lowther
case in the usual misser, it will be re- bad sufficient time to level up. In fact signs Range to within 12 miles of the Bombay Port
ago a series are not wanting that this will shortly be realis Imlts when the, stref wiles broke again and membered that some time she had to put anchors out. Wolle in this of daring armed robbery was carried out lord, for many of the newer companies flated position she was passed by the Ockenfats and three different houses in the village of Santin during the born are dropping out as liquida- on the same ight, the robbers niter terrifying tion follows I-quidation, and at the second-class mel by ika steamer China both of which took
producers close. down'and wait for more pra" the inmates of the dwellings decamping with the news to Bombay, and the P, and O. tur
all the booty they could lay hands on but firable time. Dewan took her into Bombay as the evening shortly afterwards they were arrested. of July . immense crowds being present on Bunder Heads to greet the overdue passengers. The Viceroy of India telegraphed Iris sincere congratulations to the Trieste passengers and crew on their escape, and also to the officers and crew of the rescuing brat the Lowther Range, for their splendid rescue.
talared. During the ilma the Teleste was drift. 1 from the Crown Solicitor's office, prosecuted above rafuror are now being mada with cast 17iend liberty to apply if he finds out that my arrived at Manila from Hainheng. OD 15th fast.
·PERILOUS PLIGHT OF AUSTRIAN LINER.
.BRITISH COLLIER'S FILAT:
Further details of the salvage of the steamer Trieste by the collier Lowther Gratige show what a darrow escape both vessels had from disaster in the beavy gale raging in the fullan Ocean. It seems that the collier was hard at work for six days before she succeeded in get. ting the tow rope aboard. The log of the chief officer of the Trieste gives a graphic ac count of the ayage from Adeo to the time the tow rope broke outside Bombay Lightship. It contains many details hitherto unreported,
Under date June 16, it states: AC715 p.m. the Iall whaß broke. Wetherefore began to trim the steamer with the sails as best we could, using the canvas ampingy, etc, for the purpose. There were 27 aalooo passangers and 64 declt passen. ⚫gers and a crew oľ66 m iking 161lives altogether, that the position was triinus and with a Seeing view to reach the share at the earliest possible moment, we took the precaution to limit the supply of water and everybody na bourd was put on limited rations. Sails were used to prevent the steamer drif.ing to the Arabian coast by the currents which were very strong, in a norib-austerly direction. Distress signals wore showe both night and day. Rockets and all other salvagn appliances were kept tedy as well as signalling guns and a strict look up was continually mintained overheid for a passing stemer. The passengers remained calm and collected.
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The jury returood a verdict of guilty. "His Lordship sentenced the first prisoner to four- teen years hard-labour and 24 strokes of the birch, while each of the remaining prisoners Was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with.bard labour.
A remarkable feature of the trial was the fact that the first prisoner bad recently come pleted a term of seven years' bard labour for a similar offance, while the fourth prisoner was sentenced to three years' hard labour at the
last Criminal Sestions in connection with the present cast.
RUBBER SHARES ÁS INVESTMENT.
A BIGGER BOOM AHEAD.
A DISCRIMINATING REVIEW OF PUSITION
AND PROSPECTE. ..
Mr. Gardiner The defendant must have made representations to my client at the time she borrowed the money..
His Lordship-You mean she oblained the Mr. Gardiner-She certainly has the money. money under fake pretences? The case was adj cursed.
LAICHIKOK QUARANTINE
STATION,
PROVISION CONSIDERED VANECESSARY.
COMMOD?RK-Eyres called officially on His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government at noon on Tuenday, at Govern-
ment House,
THE plague feturu on Tuesday sboợy a case oo" board the 'sa. Yunnan là the haibour. The Chinese patient, who was from Canton, diad of the disease..
THE Englishman strongly deprecates the intro duction of the Rena fight film isto India owing to the racial feelings its exhibition would be
THE Sikh constabln who was charged with misconduct before Mr. J. R. Wood on Tuesday morning was pu Wadaasday sentenced to
Investors in the better class cl companies have always bad splendid prospects, both for the present and future, and the croaking ravens who expected that she better class bares would be picked up for next to nothing
came have been, bil At the meeting of the Public Works Com-likely to engender. when the slop
this thumb-mittee on 14th inal, the Chairman taid before Now tcaly disappointed,
the committee, a plan of a hospital' and contin nail history is the history of every boom based on merit, and is, mintaoyer, the history geut buildings which it was proposed to erect at of a boom which was founded on something the above station. The hospital accommoda substantial-namely, the intrinsic merit of the
tion consisted of 20 beds for men and to forro days' hard labour. better class of Bengel Coal sbarca; and I think women, in addition to which there wase quar. A SHARP shower of ballstones, lasting for about ters for the necessary nursing staff, a kitchen, three minutes, fall during a heavy rainstorm, go one conversant with both markets will deny
olatrice and a mortuary: The site of which on Saturday, the 9th inst, at ibe Kavabos Rubber boom has tofinitely more in- that trinsic merit to go upon than Bengal coal ever there buildings were to be erected wax a flat | Mines, Jalabu. bad, and that bistory in the case of the Rubber area of land just inside the entrance to its
station, boom will be sepented.
The estimated cost of the buildings was 5,000, it addition to which it was proposed to spend a sum of $1,000 in dolog up the paths. The amount which could be expended during the current year would be about $5,000.
Now, I can imagine my renders arguing it out to themselves somewhat thus: Admitting that the better class of the Rubber shared are, the best shares to hold, still there is a great deal of pessimism about. Shale values cante: go on increasing day by day and week by week. After full discussion, the committee were of without the shares getting perilously bear that opinion that, la view of the extensive provision point at which they crate to be investment of Hospital accommodation at Yaumati and of the occasions on which a quarantice station securlies and become speculative counters Kennedy Tows and having regard to the rarity and, if there be any risk, would it not be better
bas been required in the pisy, the provision of to wait for the lamp, and then to buy the
a bospital at the station is donecosary, better class shate ?"
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THE STATUS OF GOOD SHARES, Now, the answer the whole answer, ad nothing but the answer to this question lies In the fact that there will be no real stump nati share values have passed the zubicon of invest ment, and enter the domain of speculation; sa let us just st dews to carefully consider whe ther in buying the baller class of shares at present prices we are purchasing lovestment securities. The future of the rubber market depends up in the relation between supply and demand, and as long as the price of saw rubber keep anything near Es per lb there can be no question as to the low price of stores at any using like their prescat quotations. The quer tion we have to consider is, what would happen , say, rubber fall to es per lb, and then again if it fell lower? Well, if you look up the Min
The Rubber Sharo Market is taking a brea- her, and I think nooe will regret it, except perhaps, those who have been punting injudici: busly with new issues of the less desirable sort before there was time to discriminate among good, bad and indifferent. Well, Time ba kindly umpired, und-given its verdict, and if those of your readers who, doubling the sound. ness of the policy I urged them to adopt, let the rails, want consolation, I am afraid toero is little for them but the reflection that to err is buman and forgiveness in the Stock Market is dependant on their paying the fall penalty of their sins, On the other hand, those who hayo steadfastly fellowed my advice have nothing to repeat of. Their shares are still marketable, and standing at little, if anything, below the top, and I venture to predict that there are still sonny Taen follow long sccounts of the beavy scan,days ahead for the plucky holder. So I take it, the labouring vessel, of the bags of oil thrown my readers—and 1 address. The investor and over to smooth the waves and of the progress those who can see eye to eye with me will wel come as much as i du̟the quiet calm that has at three knots an hour.
taken the place of the rubber, riot which pre- PREPARING FOR EVENTUALITIES,
viously ex sted, when things moved so fast that Jane'18 The lifeboats got ready. We rolled
a dispassioned examination of the uationcing Lane market quotations of raw rubber, you heavily and the sen washed overboard all the which I propose this article to be was then out will to-day (June zud) see fiue plastation quoted it 6d, fac Para at aus, and a lot of bail and time, washing over the greater part of the deck.of the question. Nu pat had any use for it, It was now decided to shape a cottes for Kara-
No doubt there was room-and pleuly--for inferior stuff from 5 to 6 per 1b: There can be oo question that it is simply the bigh price of chì in order to save 750 miles and to make a
pessimism, as well as optimism; bul, as thura- courte where the monsoon is less severn, must be reason even is coasting eggs, so there these inferior rubbers which enables them to. must be reason in painting the glowly as well tume on the market at all, and should the all- limited sailing power. Every day a fair ration as the bright side of Rubber snare prospects, round value of rabber fail by some 5s per lb of water was given out for passengers and crew, and the painting must be done at so opportugo these robbers must altogether disappear from but for washing purposes distilled sea water le moment, and with discrimination, or pu urtles the market, for their price would drop to a used. The passengers remain cheerful and
purpose is served. The ordinary pessimistic figure that would give no margio of profit to the collectors, and the disappearance of these caim. The crew is bosily engaged in preparing
Consense that, was'dished up in the daily Press
low-grade hubbers would give another lease of towing ropes, and appliances in case of a vas was too puerilefor words. It mostly consisted of
life, tending to prevent the floor sorte gaing sal-being met. We kept fairly well to our ac astonishing mixture of ignoranceandimaga course, East on poin? South. There was great. tion, such as the subber world never knew beture below a price round about, say, 4 to 5; and of such a rate what would shares like Linggis difficulty in remaining on the Karachi wote,
Such barrowing pictures of the wholesale cu and it was decided to bring her again on the and devastation that would follow on the first be paying in the way of dividend? Adan-Bombay course, in the hope of mesting really serious set-back were portrayed in some of some steamar. Up to now there has been so the articles I have come across that, had I been possibility of making the propeller revolve, the of a vacillating disposition, I should have fia: break in the shaft having occurred between the|ished with the feelings of a criminal on whom staffing box and the propeller.
sentenca fa horrible doon kad just beca' pasB- ed. And all this because, for the most part, be writers used no discrimination!
which became necefsare au secount of our
Juss 10: Hopes anterinined af sighting the mail steamer from Aden to Bombay not elis. ed. On this day the sea very rough. The deck passengers find that they are most comfortable between decks, Waves have been wasbing Over de owing to the very heavy rolling. The cargo bad started shifting and has been perfectly restored by the crow. Stera sails have had to be furled owing to the strong wind having start. ed drifting the steamer nat of her conse. It is being noted with great sktisfaction that there is alow steady progress towards Bombay. The passengers are quite patient and resigned.
June 23: Eighty-eight miles found to be cover. ed in 24 hours. It was noticed that the propeller kopt on her erratic movements. The crew has baen busy mending the saili which were forn by heavy wlods, 8.30 pm, a light sighted stern. At once distress signals were made by the Mone code. The steamer was advised of our position. The reply was: Wait till morning to Lake on towing.
They considered that, if the necessity for such provision should arise, some temporary accommodation could at any time be provided,
The committee then adjsorped.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegrama quoted below was received from the Manila Observatory at the American Consul. ate General to-day-
Manila, July 18th, 9.30 a.m. ̧. Cyclone or Typhoon nearor overthe Northera part of Formosa Channel moving NW. or N.N.W.
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Manila, July 19th, 4 p.m. Depression over the Sulu Sea. It may den velop into a typhoon,
Manila, July zoth, 4 pmi's Cyclone or Typhoon sv. of Kalawan moving W. OF W.N.W.
LOCAL AND GENERAL, GOVERNMENT spout $119,359 on education in Hongkong last year. The ravenue was 568,214. Á NATIVE was awarded five years' hard labour by Mr. Justice Hazaiand at the Criminal Ses. sions on Monday for kidoappi ug a child., MR,. F. A. Mackenzio, who has been deaf and dumb siece his birth, bus secured the degree f Bachelor of Arts at Cambridge University, TH Navy Department at keking proposer to dispatch one hundred students each to Great Britalo, France and Germany to study for the Navy.
DURING last your 1,454 deeds and documents were registered in the Land Office under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1844 affecting 1591 low of land.
THE total amount of wolfram exported, to date, from the F. M. S. during 1910 15 piculs .937,56, against picula 454.15 to the corresponding period of last year.
A MIDDLE-AGED Chinese womas was com- milled for trial by Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy on Wednesday for bringing a young married woman into the Colony.
A. E. ABLONG, a Filipino, war-bound over in a personal bond of $to to keep the peace for six months by Mr. E. R. Halifax at the Magis Iracy on Tuesday morning for assaulting a small Filipino boy.
MR. F. J. Halico, ayout of the Pacific Mail .. Co., advises us that he is la receipt of cible from his Yokohama agency stating that the sa, dɗon- golia, which was grounded at Shimidtu, has been to floated.
It is reported that the Korean Ministers of Stato are constantly receiving threatening letters. A placard has been posted on the Tokujo gate at Seoul denouncing the Japanese and calling apon the Koreans to assembis in their owD defence...
THE Sumaira Fost hears that the appoint. ment of British Consul at Medan in Deli may shortly be expected. The increasing num ber of British residents in Dell, and the s'oudy growth of British trading and planting laterests ibero call for such a step,
A PROPOSAL is under consideration Kebs to form a Japan-Portuguese Society. It la stated that the inauguration of the Society was to be annosaced at a reception to ‘be given to the then at Kabe, on the solh instant, at the Mikado officers of the Portuguese croiser dan Gabriel,
Hotel.
THE profit and loss account of the Netherlands Trading Company shows a pisfit of fl. 5.420,231, of which # 2,638,000 was obtained frum pro vision, interest and draft accounts, and 6. 2,781,232 from agricultural business, recent years the profit obtained under the last-mentioned bead bax-beno-locreasing re gularly, as is shown by the fact that in 1907. It amounted to 8. 1,917,587, and in 1908 lo H. 2,375,946. The dividend has been fixed at 9 per cent, against 2 per cent. for 1908.
Tu sumber of Chinese lluing at the Peak and Stonsentiers' Island is estimated at 1,760.
Life movements-in-the-Ear Exatam gamizona will most likely take place in November and December Dexia
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THE King has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Anderson as Conaal General of the Baited States of America at Hongkong.
A'NATIVÈ WAS food Size at the Maglstency last Saturday for balug in possession of quantity of opium on board a Macao steamer, Tin Waisupa proposce to examine into the merits of the Chiusa Goondie abroad and to remove or retain them as may be advisable. It is antified that the English Mission Church, Kowloon,-is deleted from the list of places of worship.licensed for the solemnization of mar riages.
DR. L. P. Marques, the popular medico, is back from his trip to Mexico. He gives a glowing account of the future prospects of South Amorice.
Tux correct designation of the church of the Church Missionary Society, situate ni Yatimskių on Kowloon Island Lot No. 1085, is All Saints' Church, Yaumati.
An aged shopkeeper was awarded foar months' bard labour at the Magistracy this morning for infringing a certain trade-mark of the Orientai Tobacco Company.
THE total amount of fees received from the Civil Hospital and its annexes (excluding Victor ria Hospital) last year was $14,346.90 as com pared with 516,170.30.
H.E.",WU TING-FANO, ex Minister to the
Ualted States, is presented a memorial to the Throne advocating a change in Chinesecostume. and th: culling off of the queue.
TEN Chinese appeared at the Magistracy lust. Saturday forgambling at No. 74, Tampie Street, Yau-madi. The two keepers were each fiped 550, one man was fined 55 and the rest $3 each, AT'aimenting of the board of directory of the Shaugbal Gas Company, Limited, held on 11th ins, a dividend of throw taula per share, (six per cent) for the d’mosths ended June 30 waS declared payable on the 28th instant.
THE total revenue of the Manchurian Railway during June was Y.846,983 This shows da Cease by Y.201,400 as compared with the sLIAB period of list your, duo.to à falling off in the freight tearns.
THE geseral agent of the Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Company, Ld., has received the follow ing telegraphic advice from the Dali Ma{+. schappij, Amsterdam :-"Sold 555 bains tabacco at Guilders 0.66."
I HE master of the ss. dunks reports that on "the roth inst, he passed acum wreckago; in Lati. tude 32′ N, Longitude 108" ay' Happarent. ly an overturned juok or lighter, about 25 fast in length and 3 fest above water.,
DANISH ship in ports of the United King- dom shall be exempt from the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1891, telating to life. saving appliances, on proof that they have com. plied with the Danish 'regulation on the subject..
MR. O. N. M. Beckwith, Assistant: Harbour Master, has been permited by the Admiralty to retire from the active list of H. Ma Nový on pession nod to assume the rank of Com maider as from the 4th June, 'syid,
HYGIENE is taught systematically in all the schools in the Colony and special attention is paid to the teaching of the mudé of conveyanca of the infection of malana by the mosquito mad the manner in which the mosquito brands. THE Chiness misters and pupils at Quead's College Lave subscribed the sum of $0.60 towards a fund which is being raised with the obj.ct of purchasing rice and talbog' it at a very low price to the pour people el Canton. and neighbourhood.
A MAN was chargeil before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy last Saturday, with snatching . gold rattan badgie and a jadentonæ bangle-from- the wrist of a five-year-old child outside the Government Civil Hospital," · Tho caso was ramarded..
Imamovic
We have received from Maners. Dodwoll and Co., Ltd., a copy of the raport of the standard Life Assuranch Co. for last year. The total new business effected amounted to £2,099,592, A CHINESE' toiogram says that the Navy Da... Of this thers was re-assured with other offices partment has telegraphed to the Ministers ac
45,367, leaving a pet amount of £1,954,423. | credsad abroad, tostrecting them to study the Olaims by death and in respect of endowments regulation of naval navigation in territorial waters and high seas in thase coun¡ries, and to and codemment assurances matured were somewhat in excess of those for 1908. The submit a report to the Department on the sub. addition to the funds for the year was 254,068, | Ject. and after deducting corrent liabilities, including claims intimated but not settled, the total avail. MR. J. K. M. Smith, chief manager of the able fonde at 15th November, 1993, amounted Hongkong and Shanghai Banking, Corporation, left for England, via Canada, by the. Empresi | to £12,551,171, and at that dais ibe aggregate
Vaue of the company's 'asseis, was fully-equal of Indio last Saturday, Mrs. Smib accompanies her basband hems. Mr. Smith was Entertain. to the amount shown in the balance sheet.
ed at a farewell dinner at the Wayfoong Junior A REMARKABLE' fossil find is reported from Mess on Thursday, 14th inst. Tonkin where three skuils of early mun have been dog out in a cave. All the skulls belong to the same raça Bad bear characteristice pecu- liar to the European early man of the so-called reindeer period and to fossil human remains found in South America, Judging from these, the early men of Tonkia did not belong to the Mongol race. The tools found with the skulls resemble those characteristic of the later Stone There were very few ornaments sad pottery associated with the remains. From boses of no establo animals being Wand, it it conjectured that these cave-dwellers dicted on fruits and vegetables with perhaps shell fish
Well, an 18,000 lbs of robber produced by this company in 2008 and sold at 45 2d pet lb, a 60 per cent, dividend was declared, with a cost of manufacture of about is 40 per, lb. This year Linggis look like producing1,000,000 lbs of rubber (their official under-estimate is 850,000); the cost of marketing hit come down in 19:9 to about 11, and, making all A BIGGER BOOM TO FJLLOW.
allowance for 1910, on a 45 per lb basis, over This Rubber boom in got over yet; we have
id per lb would be saved in selling commis CLUNY Rubber Estate, near Slim River, which will start yielding next year, has been acquired sion alone. Allowing for a pormal decrease in only had the first instalment. A second and
the cost of production as the poogdage per by the Lanadron people, who, it is said, falend larger boom is to fallaw, and it is for this reason that I write to-day. I want to have a
tree increases, I think it may safely be taken buying in several other estates in Porak. straight talk with those persons of small means that if the price of raw rubber dropped to, say WE are informed by the Chinese Engineering who are dependent for their lacome on modest 48 per ib for 1910, this company could put and ining Co., Ld, that the total output of the 4 or 5 per cent. Roundly-secured Investments.
rabber on the market at a cost of so per lbi so
Company's bras mines for the week ending Now, my advice is, don't be carried away and that the Linggi profit would work cut at some July 2, amonated to 28,46774 tons and the risk your susiepanco in concores which bositate thing like 31 ad per lb, against as 8d net in
sales during the same period to 18,810.26 ions, aut to promise large dividends in a few years 1908, Or on an average gross selling price of
rubber for 1910 of as id per lb Linggis could, A. J. WALTON, Chief Engine on board the on a "net" selling price of rubber of 35 to 41 a pound, for such high prices cannot, in theaiure pay a 273 per cent dividend in 1911. Taking Charles Hardouin, was charged before Mr. Tue Linggi shares as being 3 times their original. Wood at the Magistracy on Friday with of things, be indefinitely maintained. newer companies canoot, and never will, gay value, & present investor would be getting, say, alleged assault on a Chinesa foreman employed in the Taikoo shipyard. The summons was the handsome dividends the present producing
9 per cent, an his investment, and when one considers that at 75 jod por lo a dividend of $44 dismissed. companies are declaring, for the life of a rub ber tre may be safely, estimated at over two
percent. could bs declared, giving a return on generations, and for over a generation it is
prosent values of nearly 10 per cent. I do not Then follow accounts of the trial to pass safe to predict that the yield of a carefully think you can find a share is any other market the cable from ship to ship till ou the 25th the tapped and well-nourished tree will go on ia-
which promises anything like a simdarretaro, log states: The weather continued exception. Crousing, so that in the long race the present and especially when it is baron in mind that ally rough and in the afternoon there was n producing compacies will for many years more Linggis will shortly possess a reserve fund of gale blowing with heavy downpour. of rain athan hold their own. Most of the older trees on
nearly £375,000; made up as follows;- heavy sea, the bumping of the propeller is dis- the bait estates aco giving a yield of over 6 lbs
Valua of 45,000 Kamaning B shares... £315,000
J. E. Stoclair, whom many people in ..$20,000 By previous sale of 60,000 locify felt, transmitting heavy blows to the a tree s year, and at present prices showing u
Hongkong will remember as piper at St. Age. 25,000 Cash received from Kamusing Co. steamer. The heavy wind kas robbed us of profitef over 60s a tree.
Androw's Ball, has, we notice, been adding to our few sound signals. The signals were to
his already oumerous trophies as a piper at the £370,000 the Lowther Grange toʻstand by as before.
rations Highland gatherings in Scotland this From which a further considerable revende can be expected; and note that before the average price of rubber for 1910 could work out. at is ad, the price of raw subber from now on: considerably below 25 per lb, so that, as far as wards to the end of the year would have to be this year's production aloce is concerned, pre-
forward. ment investors in the shares stand on velvet, as the saying is.
LIFE SACRIFICED.
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Meanwhile, there is a fine pa; boiling for the sext boom, and no mistake! I know of one sportsman, with a reputation out here, who has secured some 15,000 acres, with the intention, On June 26 the log continues: After three no doubl, of floating companies. He is trying attempts we succeeded in 'catching the 100 to pick up managers as best he can, and the The Lowther Grange closed our bows and companies will later on, no doubt, come out West artero to enable us to make their baw under first-class auspicas, and the capital will sar fast. The manovre proved to be a be large," for vendors are asking top prices very difficult one, owing to the high seas and company promoters are asking more, and which caned ba difference of lever of who can blame them? Raw rubber is worth to about fifty feet. All were put on to the the bolder just what he can get for it; a rubber operation and at last we were glad to see the
estate is worth to the company promoter just steal hawser grip, Great anxiety bad been felt: what he can get 'for it, and sometimes a bad in all thres-tenths of a mile line has been taken estate in the early stages of its existence is aboard. At 15 F.m. a rape was attached to thought woll of, for Malaya is a great distance bur anchor chain and towing commenced, but from London, and visiting Agent's report cap tension was great that the steel wite soapped be had in many ways. Only a few weeks ago at 1-30 pm. Work was re-masted, ito Lomiker
one manager of repute publicly called ation< Grange marcasting as before. A barrel with tign to the fact that the opinion given by him a lina Attached was safely picked up. On board on mo estate was not given with the fall know... Findacter,<--- Das Lowther Grange, after li had pissed over, ledge of all the circumstances. There is pro it was noticed that a man had been washed.bably more in a disclaimer like this than meos overboard, bleeding profusely. He had clear: the eye. There are other matters for reflection I been dasked against something and passed which particularly concern the small as well as close by Dr. Several lifebuoys were thrown le the big investor, and, first and foremost, should bim, but it was evident that life was extinct. It was a vary páinful affecting incident, and all he lay to heart the lessons of previous boome,
A USEFUL OBJECT·LESSON,
In my next article I will further deal with the prospects of this and some 40 other companies, with rubber in the future soiling at is 6d per lb gross, equal to a selling rate for fine hard Pats of a 3d perth and I will show with robber at this ridiculously low price that the shares of these companies are as sound as Coosals, Rad promise many times the return.-Ajax in The
SHOOTING AFBRAI AT
NANKING, I'
A FÖRLIGNER ARRESTED.
The
ONE year's hard labour and four hours" stocks was awarded a carpenter at the Magistracy_on Friday for returning from banishment. defendant was also fined $35 or one month's hard labour for being in posseselos of a quantity of counterfeit colas.
summer.
thrown in,
"is Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to Ordinace No. 39 of 1909, entitled an Ordin." ance to sutbolize the construction · and main- resence of a barbour of refuge upon and, over certain portions of the sea bed and foreshore situated upon the harbour frontage at Taikok tel, Mongkoktini, and Yaumaii, Kowloop, in this Colony..
UNING IN Your there were 170 jaisata umkne treatment in the Luuatic Asylum. Soven Government servants were admitted and of these, fatic were treated for alcoholism, ons was under observation and thres ware certified THE Bakit Rajah Rubber Company, Limit
to be insane (a indian policeman and Chinese ed, announce a final dividend of go per coat., THE asuual report of the Rossia lusarance Co. lighthousekeeper). Eighty-seven cases were making a total of 150 per coat. for the year has just been issued. The account shows a 4 sum of £7.500 in placed to reserve, £1,000 clear profit for the year of Rs. 694.309.69 which brought in by the rolice. Tauro were 34 paylag patients, (39 in 1908). The deaths numbered written off for depreciation, and £5,965 carried | la to be applied as follows:
To general feserve food... 69,410 674. nearly 8% of the number under treatment
(5% in 1958), 38.487.87 Allowance to director
FLEST-Surgeon P. H. Boydeo, M.D., has been Allowance to the late general manager Mr. R. Peal and the
posted to the Temar, Hongkong, for duty at the staff KATPANETARIUK
nick quarters, Wal-baliwel, from July 2, This officer has served in the medical department of Dividend to shareholders (R.
27.50 per share), 410.000,-
the navy from November, 1993, be was promote 84418 81
· Income tax pussingsKA YE
ed feet anrgeon last November, and was Aurgeon of the gunßost" Thruik when Bir Balance carried to profit and los
WE are given to understand that the action in which the Robinson Piano Company was sued. by Mr. A. Ogilvis for the sum of $445 for com missions due has been settled out of Coust. Payment of $400 was made by the defendants on Monday morning.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL S.H. E. Chamber died | at Camberley on gth inst. He saw active ser
více doing the Indian Mutiny,^and was pre-- sent at the Rebel of Lucknow, General Chamier's only son commande the Royal Antillery at isougkong.
account of 1910 .....................
58.964-59
2.997-45 Harry Kawion, commanding the Unpa Squadron, bombarded the palace of the Bultan of Zanzibar, Rs.694-309.69 and sont its walls rattling down, about his surn. THE dipdock Daway will be randy for service | in August, 1896, 5-
by the middle of August at the latest Work INFORMATION has been inceived by the Police is being rushed on it and the authorities have from the "Ta Ching" Gaverament Bank, Cand found that it is little the worse for having been
THE Chartered Bank of India, Austraila and Obraa laform as that Mr, William Foot Mit chell, M'P., has accepted a seat on the Board of on the bottom of Sablg Bay for over a month, 100, that a considerable number of forged bank Directors of the Bank. They also inform us The electrical machinery is being given a tho sotes purporting to be ten-dollar bank notes Nanking, July .that a Branch of the Bask has been opened rough overhauling, the pumps also being repair issued by the Te Ching Back are la circola ed, and in addition a large forte is engaged is tion. As a considerable number of these tapi A man named V. Borawaty has been shot, at fimritsar, Panjib, India,
chipping the rust off the mammoth machine dollar notes have been, found to be in aristo during a quarrel ou Sunday afternoon, Bol THE master of the British steamer Clam re- Further inquiry into the canss cf the ticking once in this Colpoy, all persons nie warned be and bis assailant are connected with the Circus Borowsky was promptly taken to the pons baving passed at 4:30 pm, on the 11th of the drydock in new bring held. Great saint accepting the forged notes The Imiles Emergency Hospital in the Nanjana, Exhibi-out, a large boiler.det, apparently not long fiery le maintained regarding the cause, and tion ten doliara Calog optowarna yan
in the water. The boiler, in reputed to be since the raising of the dock extra guards have clever and exact imitation of the gedinis notes.
present were deeply moved. The Lowther Grange Abandoned the line and immediately went to the 1 will give you a thumb-nail history of vas place wherethe body fall, but no trace of it could namely, the Inding coal boom of 1997; Japan be found. A faw minutes afterwards the Lowrier stopped the exportation of coal. Indian coat Grange lowered her flog at ball mast as a sign was called on to fill the gap. Coal doubled in of mourning for the man who sacrifced Bi prica; so and too per cent dividends followed life on our behalf. We did exactly the same share values followed dividends. Khay Therria to BLOW OUI appreciation of the beralam,. (550 shares, jast to giva ona instance, went up from' tien grounds and there attended to by Doctors right in the: track of steamers from Polad | bean stationed around it.” It'l4 believed that at issued by the "Te Ching Baskeåboth as
zaintives of the man), Time after time, on pany after now company came out, the shares succeeding days, attempts to pass the tow line of each Immediately going to substantial pre fallad, till on the oth, the wire hawser was got miums, and Calcutta waer mid on coali In an board. The Lowther. Grange fixed this and those stirring times there were many warding. after having let of tso fathome started golag | but "Goni is an absolute necessity" was the
tion is said to be critical S
His assailant is said to be a British substet and is now to the custody of the British Con Fulate at Nanking.
Everything is quiet in the city,
zdeg, 1smin. 30 N. Long 105 deg. E. North will bainagurated in that non-American labour, les Chirie characters and would pre Eastward of Oar Island beating N; 3 deg. will berenger not be employed. It is believed bably deceive any ordinary person to whom zomb. W. (two) distant sığ, milos darings that the cause of the sinking was due to allber, the differences between the packing and frie sro captioned 4ccordingly
One of (wo cames, criminal weglect or reacheryć, dolent notes had put bain explained.