GENERAL NEWS.
SOY-CHEE COTTON SPINNING CO.
Thennus! "Meeting.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1. 1914.
As the horse power of our old engines ia not sufficient to drive another 10,000 spindles, your direotor; thought it advisable to have the carding and spinning frames driven electrically, while for the acutohing machinery
| enough power can be produced
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Church and Labour. Probably no Germen ecclesiastio bas boen more talked about in recent years than Cardinal Kopp, who has died in his 77th year. The annual meeting of the by the present engines. The sumROGATE, Austin Road, Kow- He was especially interested in Soy-chee Cotton Spinning Co., of Tis. 918.28 is duty paid on loon; unfurnished.
TO LET No. 4, "ORMSBY the modern labour movement, and Id, was held at the office of the mchinery which arrived before No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett. had lately been identified with general managera, Messrs. Ara- December 31. The greater part Church Mission Society Bungato-SPANISH DOMINICAN the discussion he to whether Ro-hold. Korherg& Co. at Shanghai of the machinery has now arrived low) artly furnished. Cheap rent. man Catholic working men should on March 25. Mr. H. E. Arnhold and is being put up by our own Peak to let furnished for one No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59 unite in distinctively Catholic presi led.
men, and working of the exten-year from 1st May, 1914. organisations, or should join na The Chairman eni-Gentle-ion will probably be started by No. 19, Shelley Street. sociations without a sectarian men, The report and accounts the end of May. basis. A Papal Encyclical of last having been in your bands for autumn permitted Catholic work-some time, I propose, with your men to join general, associations permission, to take them ne read. provided they retained member-The profit of the year is Tls ship of a Catholic guild.
185 812.56, and with the sum of Tia. 3,157 58 brought forward there is available for appropria- tion Tls. 189,000.14, which your directors propose to deal with as follows:
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TO LET furnished for 8 weeks from the 6th April next No. TO LET till 31st October 6 the Peak (Bishops Lodge North) 1914, No. 64, seven rooms and drying room, Hongkong.
The Peak, Apply PALMER and TURNER. furnished, including Electric fans and Telephone.
Regarding the old machinery, beg to say that the same has been working day and night the whole year without a hitch, and that the whole plant is in excel-
TO LET No. 5 Mountain lent condition. The amount of View from 1st April 1914. about Tla 20,000 was spent for No. 12 Beaconfield Arcade,
pairs and renewal to the plant
Shop. and buildinge, including several improvemente in our scatching room, all of which has been paid out of working account and the cum ep-nt has nothing to do with the further amor t of Tis. 25,000 we propose to write off for 20,000.00 depreciation.
To pay a dividend of Tls. 8 on 20,000
Tle. 120,000.00 shares.....
To place to Divi-
Solomon's 300 wives were ordited with beatowing superior wisdom upon that monarch by an Ameri- oar clergyman before the mid- winter Bible Conference at Washington. "The wisdom of Solomon was not in the spondend Equalization taneous thoughts of one mind, however great," he said.". Each of his sayings represented a personal experience from which he had drawn a lesson. We muit not forget that Solomon had 300 wives.
Honey in City Flats. That all city flat dwellers should raise bees, that a small hive costing $5 will yield enough to keep the average family in honey for a year, is the contention, of the State bee inspecter of lown On the window all of the ordinary city flat, he said, it is entirely practicable to keep a hive of bees, says the new York Sun If there are no yarda with trees and flowers surrounding the flat it is easy to keep potted flowers on the window sills,adding to the beauty of the flat's homelike appoint meats and at the same time providing sustenance for the bees until summer, when it usually is practicable to find clover, grass, hans, or flowers. :'
In Praise of the Dance.
Fund........... Tis.
To write off for
depreciation... Tls. "To General Man- gera in accordance with Articles of Association......Tls.
To carry forward to new account Tli.
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year
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FOR SALE.
HARTING and ROGATE, on part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. "GLENSHTEL" 124 Barker
O LET.FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Granville Avenue and Salisbury Avenue,
Kowloon, Cheap rentals..
SHOP with GODOWN attach ed, Nathan Eoài. KOWLOON.
Kowloon Marine Los No. 48 with Wharf.
Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram Road, Kowloon, 6 rooms and Windsor Lodge, Kimberley Station.
Kowloon. Suitable for Eur-
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Apply to
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Alexandra Buildings.
Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3. Flour, Alandra Building. The amount shown in the Hong' o ig, 2nd Ct., 19:3 1211 25,000 00 blanco sheet appear to be rather
high, but it includes a large TO LET-Two room Flats in quantity of cotton, and the opeans, in good airy locality. yarn we had at the end of All Modern Conveniences. Terms 18,584.25 16t
as I have Modorate. Apply H. RUTTON- already pointed out, sold.and bas JEE. Royal George Hotel. 5.415.89 in the meantime been taken Hongkong, 17th Oct., 1913.
delivery of
I draw your attention to the TOLET-from let May, 191
No. 104a, The Peak, fura BL- Dividend Equalization Foaded. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co.. WANTED a Partner for a go-. which will, if you pass these ac- Prince's Buildings. route, amount to Tis. 85,269.52, or 8 per cent on the capital.
Tie. 189,000.14
Before going into details re- garding the balance sheet, I wish to make a for remarks regarding the working of the past year, which, as a whole, I think can be considered satisfactory...
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T° The items of the profit and loss
account are, I think, quits clear,
and do not need any special CHATER & MODY, No 9, WANTED, a Compradore for comment.
You will remember that at the
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fessor of Music requires.
WANTED, PUPILS-A Pro- pupils for VIOLIN, 'OELLO, last meeting I pointed out that TO LET for six months from MANDOLIN FLUTE, OBOR April 15th next, furnished CLARIONETTE and BRASS four roomed house in Wanchai Instruments of all kinds. Term throughout. Nominal rental-VASSALLO co Road. Electric light and fans reasonable. Apply EMANUAL
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The urospects at the beginning of 1913 for Incal mills were very Our thanks are due to the. good indeed, and the working Cotton Anti-Adulteration Associe-TO LET OFFICES in King's Hougkong Telegraph, during the first part of the year tion which is doing excellent was highly satisfactory. Prices work, and has helped a great deal for yarn left a good profit, and to prevent the Chinese from water- oliveries were everything that ing the cotton heavily as they could be desired. The outbresku ed to do in former years. of the Revolution in Jaly, how- A regarde the prospects for eren, brought business to the present year, it is very diffoult standstill for quite some time, to say anything, as the trade in and prices for yarn declined general depende go much on the Dancing is the loftiest, the considerably. The depression of political situation of this country. most moving, the most beautiful the money market, and the un- of the arts, because it is no mere certain state the country was in, translation or abstraction from had a very bad effect on the trade, the good times the Chinese mille life; it is life itself. It is the only and a number of our dealers were were enjoying would probably art, as Rahel Varnbagen said, of unable to ke delivery of the bring more competition, and you, which .e ourselves are the stuff yarn they hi bought within the no doubt, know that the number The dance flies at the beginning time contracted for, and it was of spindles both in China as well of art, and we find it also at the through this that we had to carry as in Japan has largely increased, ehd, saye Mr. Havelock Ellis in rather a heavy stock, which, Owing to the dull trade during the Atlantic Monthly. The first although sold, could not be the end of last, and the beginning of the Bakoya and Tefnisa trites, the interest of the first case, the valuable evidence at Reading by Two Riff obieftaine, the heads recognising its owner. To add to creators of civilisation were mak-delivered at the end of last year. of this year, stocks had rather ing the dance, and the philoso-
I am glad to say that in the accumulated, but as atcake in the were deeply interested spectatoradog concerned was the offspring pher of to-day, hovering over the meantime the demand for yarn interior were short, deliveries of a debate in the Commons, says of une formerly owned by the dark abyss of insanity, with bas bac me much better, and our have been extremely good lately of the Chamber were unusually
the Times. Their impressions Clerk of the Court. bleeding festand muscles strained dealers have not only fulfilled and if there are no farther politic-vivid and highly novel. They to the breaking point, still seems their old contracts but we have al disturbances I think that the came to the conclusion that the to himself to be wearing the maze sold our present production, and mills will have another good your English were
deliveries are keeping ap well before them, considering the very Arabs.
a lost tribe of with the same. Prices of cotton low prices for raw cotton.
The House, with its bave been continually declining, As the flaming forth of a and we have been able to contract like to ask whether it had been suggested to them an Arabesque Mr. E. W. Noel said he would alender pillare and soft lighting, seemingly extinct volcano attracts for considerable quantities at contemplated by the directors at of the Ladies' Gallery as escanti- interior. They hailed the grille more attention than the continuous prices which should leave us a sny of their meetings or delibera- ally Oriental. And the deep ativity of one which has never very good profit during the next tions to have loome as well as obeisances which the tellers made been dormant, so the coming into months.
spindles established in the mill.in advancing to the table re Nothing is mom we 1: of year con- being of the art of Goya, from I now come to the various He thought it was an almost minded them of the manner insideration than the welfare of your eyes among the dead ashes of the teme of the balance sheet.-Free- unwritten law now that all cotton which they announced the result The trouble that to-day is small & boyond Spanish school, has evoked an hold land: You will have seen mill should have at least a of their owa deliberations in thely remedied, if neglected may go beyond amount of interest in his work that in 1912 we acquired new sufficient number of looms to which would not have been vouch-land for Tis. 5.789.30 which utilize fifty per cent. of their
councils of Morocco. Bafed to it had it been born in brings the book value of our production of yarn. It was.the
Canine Judges. happier times and amid more property up 13 Tle. 137.148.46. usual practice, he believed.nown chief witnessos in legal disputes Dogs have before now been the auspicious surroundings, says the The land we bought was a strip days, and it would avoid the regarding their ownership, but OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. Connoisseur. Of recent years the adjoining our property on the side accumulations of yarn sgh as he it was by a striking coincidence Tel, 1292. 1A, D'Aguilar St interest in Goys has increased opposite to the mill, and es, by had a faint suspicion they had that two instances of the kind rather than abated for Goya is this acquisition our property is found in the past. If they could occurred recently. In one, GUARD AGAINST PLAQUE emphatically one of the moderns, now ordering the projected zo on weaving their surplus of spaniel which was claimed by two
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Father than technique, and his of that piece of our land is great on spinning, and he thought that therefore adjudged the owner, 1914 fafuence is shown in the work of ly increase 1. men who, like Manet, have wholly"
it was a matter worth while con- while a stolen retriever gave OHILA COMMERCIAL CO., 3. Duddell St revolted from academic tradition of last year your directore decided it as a recommendation to the Buildings; At the beginning aidering. He would like to put bat it would be advisable to en-Board if it had not already beзn large our mill, in order to get a considered by them. Ontario will possess the second fall share of no good times which The Chairman replied that the largest steel centre in the world. Chinese male have apparently matter had been considered by The United Steel Corporation before them. It was agreed to the Board, and they had decided proposes to erect at Sandwich & add 10,000 spindles to the existing to wait and see what the experi plant costing four million pounds sterling. The buildings will pombe of our spindles to 50,000. was before they went any farther: mill, which brings up the total ence of some of the other mills cover over 1,000,000 acres. Apart The building to receive these He did not think that it would from the importance of this con spindles is nearly complete. and overcome the difficulties Btruction from the industrial point the amount of Tis. 40,182.97 was accumulations of stocks, for it of view, it will be of immense spent for the same, ap to the end would make very little difference advantage to the agricultural area in which it is situated. The of last year. The outlay of the whether they had accumulations county of Essex is amply blessed now building, which is put of yarn or cloth. However, in in reinforced concrete, is such the fature it might come up with fertility of soil, aided by a
that it can easily be enlarged in again, but for the time being they Two Ways of Love, By Lota. The Terms of Surrender, mild and favourable climate, and the extension of the market order to receive another 10,000 profeired to wait to see what the brought about by this large riant, spindles, if times should warrant experience of the other mills was. Horace Blake,
uch an extension, will be a big advantage. Essex County is know as "The Seed The machinery has been order. Bad of Canada for Corn" and ed from the esme makers, who produces also all the tender fruits supplied that of the old mill, and Arrangements with the Fame have and tobacco. The cereal orops best made which will enable the of the county have a very high ill meet the cost of the
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