GENERAL NEWS.
Tropical Agriculture College.
Wiring to the "Ceylon Obser-
SUNGEL WAY RUBBER,
Enhanced Profits and Higher Dividend,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1918:
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD
TO LET
FOR EACH INSERTION.
No. 21, SHELLY STREET. from 1st July.
No. 2 Mountain View, Poak,
SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124,
To let or for salo, GLEN-[" Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, 1913.
on April 20, a London The sanual general meeting of correspondent says:-Professor the Sungei Way (Selangor) Rub- Whyadham Dunstan, President ber Company, Ltd., was held on of the International Association April 10, at Glasgow, Mr Thomas of Tropical Agriculture, in a let- North Christie presiding. The FRO tor to to-day's "Times," refers to Chairman said: The report re-shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms.
ROM 1st February, MEI- RION, No. 10, Peak, furni- Mr. Jolin Ferguson's papar ou cards a much more satisfactory Planting in Clus road at the year's working than the no wo Colonial Instituta in 1911 He had before us a twelvemonth ago, proceeds to any that Ceylon is and in spite of a fall of more than best suited for un agricultural one shilling per pound in the college, as it possesses a variety price obtained for our rabber, of climates, and opportunities for shows a profit of £34,000, against studying rubber, tes, 0000nurs, £25,000 for the previous year. and other tropical orops. It has This enables us to inercise our a large and influential and enter-dividend to the satisfactory figure prising planting community, both of 60 per cent. per annum, al- European and native, and also though we have to pay upon an the advantage of an agricultural increased capital, This increaa- department. Training in Cevlon, ed profit, notwithstanding the following a home course, ehould serious fall in the price of our qualify agriculturists for any part product, is due to two causes, of the tropical world. The West namely, our increased output and Indies College would chiefly a reduction in the cost of produc-TOLET
tion to the extent of 6 3/4d. per lb. Stam, and the Metric System.satisfactory item to our debit in There is one unusual and un- The "Bangkok Times" under- stands that a beginning will short- the accounts, namely, £161 for ly be made in the introduction of money stolen. This money was the metric system into Sinun by brought out to the estate to pay the standardisation of the tanabourers and the safe in which it This customary unit of capacity is put was opened by a key
serve local needs.
ORAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the Peak to let; fine situation; 8 rooms; tennis and oroquet lawns, FOR SALE,—HARTING and. ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-
Apply to 'LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913
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̧.· premises, including the Silk Godown, in Canton on Shameen Lot 19 known as "THE RED. HOUSE" now in the cocupation of Mr. T. E. Griffith. Apply to.- DAVID SASSOON & Co, Ltd. No. 2, Park Road. 4 Room- ed Bungalow with Tennis Court.TOLET-OCCUPATION from 1st proximo, the premises Commanda splendid View of No. 6 Des Voeux Road Central, Harbour.For Rent, etc., please now nearing completion. Suitable apply to YAP HOK LING, NO for Banking, and other Offices etc. 4, Ripon Terrace. Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. [264 Apply to.-DAVID SASSOON &
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now very nearly equal to a litre/uring the night-presumably Tarraco, THE HONGKONG NEW MODERN 3 ROOM-
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Sailing Ships for Suifragists. Mr. Justice Bankes, at the Manchester Assizes on April 23, sent Lillian Forrester to prison for three months in the second
and it is felt by the authorities by Chinese servants and the that its standardisation at that money abstracted. It is against the wishes of the board that measure will canse i minimum of trouble to all users. Hence a star should ever be kept on the estate any sum beyond tho petty cash being made with this measure. Į Inter another unit like tho. wa for night, it being easy to, obtain A Hacienda East, 74 Mount Kellet glish Cooking Range and Hot will be similarly standardised and the use of the standard enforced. Gradually the whole system will be introduced in this way, and neantime a knowledge of the have been some carelessness in TO LET-UNFURNISHED,
for from JULY 1913: "Myrtle system is being more generally leaving the key about and giving Bank," 51 The Peak, Mt. Kellett. FINANCE Co, Ltd: diftused. The specimens, pro-health conditions on the estate. an opportunity to copy it. Tho
2 Recoption Rooms, 3 Bad-roome, totypes and standards, hava now been received by the Ministry are now quite good and consider-Drying Room and usual offices; monthly rent $175 exclusive of from the Bureau International able above the average for the Taxes: Gas and water laid on.
F.MS. esta:cs, but that fact will Apply to des Poids et Mesures at Sevres.
COMMISSIONER, Mom Chao Ban Sri hits taken not be allowed by Dr. Watson or Kowloon Customs, York Build- temporary charge of the metric
by ourselves to interfere with inge, Chater Road. system office at the Ministry of efforts, to make them still better. Agriculture.
It will be noticed that this year we give some of the items of ex- King Manoel and his Bride-elect.penditure in granter detail, and,
The engagement of King Manoel you see that our direct taxation Adaption by the North-German to Princess Augusta Victoris, of alone, in the form of export duty, Hohenzollern, which, as we have amounted to €1,473. Events dur- already stated, is officially con- ing the year have justified the cessful trials in submarine signal-1
As a result of a series of suc-division, and Evelyn Manesta for one month, for damaging pictures firmed, has aroused great interest. criticisms made in several quar-ling from steamers, the North-in the Manchester Art Gallery. It is stated that the marriage will ters last year at the unnecesary German Lloyd have decided to ties to keep the pease, or undergo They were ordered to. And sure- take place very shortly. The burdene maintained upon us and equip their steamers Kronprin bride-oleot, the only daughter of the danger of further suma being zessin Cecilie, Kaiser Wilhelm further imprisonment for siz Prince William, the head of the devoted to outside purposes. II., Kronprinz Wilhelm, Kaiser mouths and four months respeo non-reigning line of Hohenzollern, The Government, still ignoring Wilhelm der Grosse, George tively. They protested that they was born at Potsdam on August the need for a first rate port on the Washington, Berlin, Prinz Fried could not find the sureties. Mr. 19, 1800, and is thus nine months western side of the States and with rich Wilhelm, and Columbus, Justice Bankes said that if the law Younger than the bridegroom. the railway and roads in need now building at Danzig, with allowed him, he would send them King Manoel is second cousin to of large expenditures, can only submarine bells of a similar round the world in a sailing ship. his future bride through her get rid of ita excessive funds by type to those fitted to lightships. paternal grandmother, the Prin- baying the distant Singapore, The advantage to be derived HILL cess Antonis, who was the daugh- Government Railway and paying from the possession of these bells tor of Queen Maria da Gloria of for a Dreadnought. The principle is that the steamers to equipped of Portugal, and so the sant of of Great Britain taking from a will not only receive the signals King Carlos, the father of the dependency which is absolutely from the regular warning stations, bridegroom. King Manoel met under the thumb and order of the bar will themselves be able to MINERAL WATER the Princese about a year ago at British Colonial Office more than send out sound signals, so that in Munich while paying a visit to two millions sterling is quite the event of the vessel's being in the widow of Duke Charles Theo- wrong, and is not made right be- distress in a fog, its position dore in Bavaria, the Infanta Maria equse it wears a patriotic guise. could be easily located and the Joseph of Portugal.
When I leave the facts of the past vessel found by any other ship year and come to the possibilities fitted with a submarine receiving
Divorce Cases in Camera.
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The House of Lords gave of the present year and the faturo apparatas. unanimous judgment on May 5,I am on uncertain ground but in a remarkable case in which a the conditions of the rubber lady and her solicitor appealed market to-day are not unexpected, against the decision of Mr. Justice and they will not swamp the Deane which was upheld by the Sungoi way profits, We must be full Court of Appeal condemning prepared to meet a lower profit as contempt of court their having per lb. by a large output as well communicated to third parties ass by reduced coats of working transcript of proceedings in and the board has done all that camera for nullity of marriage in was possible in the direction of which the lady was petitioner. extending our area under cultiva Lord Shaw gave a long and tion. Now that we are not ham- elaborate judgment dealing with pered by ill-health on the estate
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MESSRS, KOMOR & KOMOR'S Newly-Built Gallery, excellent progress has been made. the whole. question of the right Last year we opened just 300 Opens on SATURDAY, the 34th Inst. Visitori aré cordially invited.{}
Alexandra Bulldings. of judges to hear cases in camera andexpressed the view that judges acres, and this year we hope Hongkong, 24th May, 1913. had enoroaobed in this respect Mr. Tacker will be able to upon the constitutional rights of add a couple of hundred more. the people. If the judgment in Our crop for the first three the present case were upheld an months of this year has come in easy way would be opened for very well---78,000 lbs. against judges to remove their proceed-48,000 lbs. last year-and we ings from the light and such have sold forward more than one- impairment of the right of the third of the whole estimated year's people would be intolerable in a crop at an average price of 44d. The Judgement House free country..
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