GENERAL NEWS.
£300,000 to be Speat on Polo
Tournament."
LANGKAT SUMATRA
REPORT.
Further Requests For Splitting. of The Shares.
to December 31 were as follows:--
New York, March 15.-On the conclusion of a meeting to discusa
The report of the Langkat plans for the coming internation-
Rubber Company al polo meet between the beat Sumatra team of England and the Cham Limited, states that the crops tho year pionship team of America, the harvested during American Polo Association an. nounced that it would spend Rubber, 213,646 lbs., against an estimate of 180,000 lbs.; coffee, $1,000,000 gold in making or 474 wts., against an estimate of rangements for the coming tour- noment, which will be held in the 756 owts. The shortage of the summer at Westbury, L L. It is coffee crop is due to the cutting planned to double the scaling out of the whole of the coffee
What 'European. War Would Cost.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1913.
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD
FOR EACH INSERTION.
TO LET.
FROM 1st February, MEI RION, No. 10, Peak, furni- shed or unfurnished: 6 Rooms.
The" EYRIE" No. 13 Peak, To let furnished.
TO LET,
TO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2,
Pedder Street. -- One roomed Office, Apply Property Office, Jardine, Mathe- Bon & Co., Ltd.
TO LET LARGE substantially
No. 21, SHELLY STREET. To lot or for sale, GLEN- SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, 1913,5 rooms from 1st March.
built Godown, situated on CRAIG RYRIE No. 4, the water front, East Point. For rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. ty Office, Jardine Matheson &
FOR SALE-HARTING and Co., Ltd. ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-
and Lot No. 1154.
"LYEEMUN," Barker Road
[58%
No. 34, Peak to let furnished or TO LETA. House in Knutsford unfurnished to 30th November, 1913, 6 rooms,
Terra. THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT L'AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. Hongkong, 27th Mar., 1918, T 968
WANTED.
WANTED: An engagement as housekeeper by young woman (Japanese) age 22 years. A confidential interview can be arranged. Apply "CONFIDEN- TIAL" c/o "H'kong Telegraph." Hongkong, 14th April 1918,
capacity so as to accomodate bushes, which was done in the Peak to let; fine situation; 8ffürther partículars apply Proper 40,000 spectators, have better early part of the year. The crops facilities at the railroads and also of rubber harvested since the in-. buy more ponies, Harry Payne ception of the company are as
follows:---- 1008, 4,131 Ibs. Whitney, who is captain of the American team, anticipates that 1900, 12,520 lbs. 1910, 45,092
1911, 99,714 Ibe his men will be successful in deba fending the cup against the 1912, 213,0 16 lbs. The gross price obtained for rubber was an British challengers..".
Apply to average of 4a. 441. per lb. The
LINSTEAD DAVIS, coat f.o.b." (excluding manage
3rd Floor, Alexandra Building. ment and cultivation expenace) Hongkong, 25th Feb.; 1913. [211 War would prove an even more was 0038. per lb... and freight,TO LET—” BREEZY VILLA” costly business now than in the insurance and all solling charges days when Ruskin deplored the oost. 3.18d. per lb, a total of od Bungalow with Tennis Court. No. 2, Park Road. 4 Room barden of taxation it cast upon 9.191. per lb, as against le. 0.4:}, Commands splendid View of the people. A well-known Ger- per lb. for 1911. The average Harbour. For Rent, etc., please man economist, Professor Risser, net price received for coffee was apply to-YAP HOK LING, No, reckons that if war broke out 738. D. per cwt. The orop of 4. Ripon Terrace. be country during the first six mated at 288,000 lbs. Of this crop DUNEDIN" Barker Road, between Francs and Germany rubber for the current year is esti- Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. (264 LET FURNISHED weeks of hostilities would have to 24 tons have been sold at 48. 4d.jer lay heads on £60,000,000 to cover b. for delivery two tona per month No. 135 The Peak, for six or seven the cost of mobilisation and to from January to December. The months from 1st June or before. support their armies in the field. company's planting programme tile Bank.
Apply to C. T. BEATH, Mercan- Private interests would also make has now been completed. the area wongkong 18th, April 1913. a sudden demand for gold. Iain enltivation being 1,025 acres
(81 Germany at least £50,000,000 85,380 trees were in tapping at would be required to finance war. December 31, as against 65,000 contracts, and a further £12,000, at the end of the previous year, 000 by the business world to and it is hoped to add a further meet anxiety calls," that is demands due to sudden cancelling of credit, and calling in of loana and mortgages.-Exchange,
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FOR SALE Birds of Paradise ready for hate. Apply P.O. Box 267. Hongkong 18 April, 1918. [803
Unique among such. foods is Sapatogen, which, as that distin- guished medical author, Dr. C. W. Saleeby, writes, "Is a special- ly adapted food that has solved the problem of giving phosphorus in such a way that the nervous system can take hold of it."
It acts like a charm in remov-
10,000 trees during the current year. The averge field of rubber over the whole of the past year Renter's Agency hae received works out at about 3 lbe, per tree, the following telegram from a The Riddle of the Sphinx.
which the directors, consider correspondent in Hankow with Great interest is being taken satisfctory. The Ficus trees have regard to the recent jumours in the recent discoveries at the been cut out during the year, and from Wachang and Hankowing lassitude and in replacing it Sphinx. Professor Reisner has Hovea is now the only variety of I saw General Li Yuan-hung with a sensation of buoyancy and succeeded in removing the ae.
rubber grows.
late on Thursday. He laughed reinvigoration Testimony to cumulated sand of some sixty
The manager reports that the at the report of his assassination, this, effect is forthcoming in the centuries from the interior of the estates present in consequence a and said that in his opinion the statements of distinguished men. head and has gained entrance much-improved appearance. There rumour was circulated by recent Mr. H S. Staveley Hill, M. P., through the neck to a temple that continues to be ample labour for conspirators with a view to oneett writes from the House of Com- ruus the whole length of the the company's requirements, and ling the populace. He said that mons in London, where, men are whole length of the gigantic body the health is generally good. One he had kept complete control of peculiarly prone to lassitude: "I measuring 120 feet in length. In hundred coolies were recruited the situation, and had folt no fad Banatugen get excellent. the temple is a pyramid which during the year, and 238 coolies anxiety. He denied that there tonic and restorative after the formed the tomb of Menes, the whose contracts had expired, had been any execations, but hard work of the session. It first King of Egypt, and is sup voluntarily re-engaged. At the admitted that several conspira posed to contain his mammified close of the financial year about tors had been arrested. body. A sloping passage from 40 per cent. of the company's pro- General Li said that since the the temple leads to other chamb-perty was in bearing, but 75 per disbandment of the Hupeh regi- ers as yet unexplored, and it is cent. of general charges (ealeries, ments he had brought several to regiments of Honan troops to the thought to be a subterranean etc.) has been debited
In addition revenue Hupeh railway stations, whence tained at all Chemists, should be city. The importance of there revenue. wonderful discoveries can hardly has been charged, as formerly, they could be brought into action used by everyone whenever he the directors' fers at Wachang within six hoars feels the least disposition to be exaggerated and may prove to with
and London charges. £,638 The Napking troops at Wuchang|lassitude, weariness, or fatigue. be the most valuable yet made,
has been written off coolie engage were also reliable. Baby President of a Club. ment charges, £634 off invest
The Presidency.
appears to me to contain all the qualities necessary for a tonic
which secures the object in view, namely, the removal of lassitude. and it gives increased vitality."
Sanatogen, which can be ob
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Sole Agent,
A little boy of three has just mente, and £1,200 has been On being asked if he were a been elected president of the Old written off for depreciation of candidate for the Presidency, Warden Reading and Recreation buildings and machinery. After General Li Yaan-Hung replied Club, and is the distinction of these adjustments the net profit that he had already circularized being the youngest club president for the rear amounts to £24,118 the provinces refusing to be con- in England. The club is the which, after adding the amount sidered candidate. He said:-- centre of the amusement and brought forward (£2,200) and dr-"I think Yuan is a better man Rocial life of the villagers in Old noting the interim dividend of for the present time," He co- BIST OF ANCIENT CHINESE Warden, Bedfordshire. Master 121 per cent. paid October 14, sidered that the choice of Premier CURIOS, JADES, ORNAMENTS Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth, faves the Rom of £17,105 avail- should be left to the President. AND JEWELLERY. the baby president, is a handsome able for distribution, The dire There is no outward sign of 72 Queen's Road, Central. little boy with a very intelligent tors recommend the payment of unrest at Wuchang. face. He succeede bis father as foal dividend at the rate of 17
Dread of the North. president. On the latter's recent
It is reported that amongst the OSMAN V CASUM. death the members of the olab per cent, making 30 por cont.,
lasa ioooms tax, for the year, recent conspirators were one of unanimously elected his son to which will absorb £13,079, and the most highly placed military MILLINERS-&- DRAPERS the office. The club house standa to place £2,500 to reserve account officials in the city and also the on the Shuttleworth estate, and making this account £4,000 head of General Li's bodyguard. Master Richard's mother is pleased leaving a balance of £1,525 to be Both of these men were among at the compliment paid to her carried forward. The period for the original revolutionaries. Both little boy. Colonel Frank Shuttle the exercise of options expired have hurriedly abeanted them- worth was born in 1845, and in January 17, 1913; options selves. The conspiracy has been 1902 be married Durolby Cloth over 195 shares have not been completely thwarted. The situa THE ALEXANDRA CAFE The Turco-Filipino Cigar ilda, younger daughter of the Rey, exercised. The directors invitation in easier than it has been for Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, For Robert Long, vicar of Old Warden. tenders for these shares from the last ten days. The people Bread, Cakes, Confectionery,
Chinese and Sewing Machines, shoreholdere only at a price ex-are more tro pleased at the near-meals with Wines & Liquera,
It is well known, says the Java ceeding £3 or share, and willness of the Northern troops.. Bade of March 27, the natives allot to the highest bidders. They have not yet forgotten the often make use of the opportuni- Should the applications at the fighting of 1011-"N. China ty of converting into cash the highest price exceed the number Daily News", Singer Sowing machines which of shares available, allotment will be t have come into their possession be made pro rata, The directors LASSITUDE AND HOW on the hire purchase system. have again received requeste for They pay the first few iastal the splitting of the shares. They ments, and then, regarding the propose to leave the decision machines as their own porperty, in this matter to the shareholders. they dispose of them. Pawning is no longer possible, as the Gov- ernment pawnshops have been
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and Cigarette Store. 18, Queen's Road,
The Advancing Prices
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TO OVERCOME IT. which prevall in almost every line of business should Daring the enervating" muggy" produce alertness all round. As a business house of weather which so constantly wide operations we are watching for every available marks the second quarter of the year, lassitude is the lot of a large opportunity of bringing to the public generally the An F.M.S. Tigress.n number of people. The physical instructed not to take the ma- Budin, a well-known shikari sensation is accompanied by a best possible value. This efficient service is made pos- chines. The Sourabaya “Courant" at Benta, sixteen miles from mental in disposition to work, and
Kuala Lipis, bagged a tigress a lack of tons of the whole system. sible by the fact that we are large buyers and sellers been arrested in Sourabaya who on the night of April 2; syys Who is there, then, who will for cash. We invite the enquiry aud court the com- appears to have made quite a the "Straits Times. The brute, not gladly adopt a regime which penz
now reports that a Chinese has
QUEEN'S
regular business of buying these on the previous day, had killed a completely overcomes this mental parison of the keen-buying householder. machines from the natives. He cow and a calf owned by Haji and physical apátby, and restores had no fewer than nine machines Usen. Owing to the unsettled the vim and snap of life. ? in his possession. Most of them state of country along the Banta Yet, to quote Hamlet's familiar had only recently been acquired Kaan-tan Road, wild animals words If in as easy sa lying. by the natives from the Singer roam there at their plessure when once it is remembered that Company. It appears that the The carcase of the tigress was a really revivifying and restora men paid only 1.25 to F.30 each brought to Lipis for the usual retive tonic food rich in vital phos for them
Ward wh
will do this,
was paid,
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