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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co., WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELLE R&

HOTH L MANSIONS,

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NEW ELECTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH BİLVER WARI

·HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.

Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE BIGGER BOOM.

We might be scoured of neglecting the interests of our readers if we failed to Inform them that there are certain persons i who predict that the past rubber boom was but a pale shadow of the bigger"boom" " that lies ahead. In particular, a writer known na "Ajxx" has been pledging his Į MITSU BISHI COSHI KWAISHA | faith that the prolity to be made are beyond

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

-LARGE SELECTION OF PRUSENTATION-PLATE, CUTS, BOWL, COAL DEPARTMENT.

FALCONER & Co, A ABIM Yon-KOSSS FAMOUS TELESCOPES

BINOCULARS, LORD KELVIN & NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY OHARTS AND BOOKS.

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SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-be put upon the market sad surcesfully

SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO,

BOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER | NAMÄZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW

S

WING KEE & CO.,

Nos, 47, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL

| HIP-CHANDLERS; SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, WAL MERCHANTS, ..., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING.

·EHIF CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL

FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager.

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Braekong." August 12, 1908.....

MEE CHEUNG & 00,

ART PHOTOGRAPHER, ICE HOUSE LANE,

11.7

and KAMTYAMADA Collories.

SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDARE, MI PAO, and KIGIO-KOMATSU Coals.

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HEAD OFFICE-TOKYO, "BRANCH OFFICES:-

Nagasaki, Mojl, Karatsi Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka, Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow.

Trz. AiDzKza for above; 'IWASAKI

all calculation and we are not going to start quarrolling with him on the subject. Ele seems to arrive at his conclusion by two lines of argument, and the one! has to be taken quite as much-notice- of as "the other. The first appears to be that a great many puro swindles has a sunted, and that they will cover enter into serious competition with older companies 4 producers of rubber. The other is that these cider companies have the prospect this year and next of paying such onormous divi- deads that the public will be driven wild! with enthusiast again, and prices will y fas above the 8gure at which they hav stood hitherto. As far as we can make out, Linggi should pay a dividend,, according to **Ajax."of about 500 percent sometime next year, and other companies of the same standing should do something in hundreds also: We should pay more respect to "Åjax" if he refrained from quoting the appalling twaddle that is being written for Truth. Here is a quotation from the great Labou- cherian journal of May: The big pio- ducers are now making record profits, and

SPECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORE. Codes --Al, ABO 5th Rd., Western Untan. some of their trees are now yielding excep

Select Views of Hongkong and South China, Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs"

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Private Bar and Billiard Roomie, Monthly Rater for "Tiffin ånd Dicher. Tera moderate.

FREDERICK REICHMANN, Proprietor & Mañoyr. Clase Manager of J. Lynum & Lo." (Trocadero) leading Caterer in London vid of the

Grand Oriental Ratel, Colombo),

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Hongkong, December 1, 1909.

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for particulars, apply to

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Manager,

No. 2, FEDER STREET

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, January, 9, 1902

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

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ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

tional returns. On the Kamuning estate, I hear that some of the oldest trees are yielding 20 lbs. of latex per acaqm, and senie, of the 29-year-old Heves trees on another important estate (whose praises ny readers are tired of hearing sung) have given 50, 60 and 62 hs. These are us tounding figures, and must give contideco to genuing investors who have supported this

industry in search of high-yielding securities possessing immeuse stability, combined with

Intimations.

J.T. SHAW,

Tailor & Outfitter.

Hongkong, November 1, 1909. 198

great development possibilities." "Ajax SUTTON'S SEEDS.

remarks that the above quotation autords with what I hear." Now we should like to

see those 60 lb. bearing trees as curiosities. if they happen to exist, but even if we sat 315 at the foot of them, while the stream of latex flowed like a brook, it would not set ue to the writing of crazy articles about production. We try to preserve's little sanity, and we know that the thing investors are concerned with is not the output of a particular tree however great, but the

In the Mutter of the Companies' Ordin average yield of thousands of trees in

ance" 1866,

average soil under average cendi ions. If there are a few trees yielding 20 lbs. and upwards, it is quito cornet that the fact should be mentioned as an arbericultural

"and In the Matter of the YANGTSZE IN. SURANCE ASSOCIATION, LTD.,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition was on the 6th day of July, 1919, presented to the Supreme Cours of

cagkong by the above named Assocta tion to confirm the alteration of the anid Association's objects proposed to be effected by a special resolution of the asid Associa- tion amanimously passed at an Extraordin- ary General Meeting of the said Associatio held on the 21st day April, 1910, and subsequently unanimously confirmed at farther Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Aracciation held on the 10th day of May, 1910, and which roselation türk as follows:-

curiosity, but it is nonsense to put such figures forward as guide to investors. There is, for instanco, nur old friend Baxendale, who recently told a meeting that he bad made the acquaintance of a tree on the Gapis estate in Perak which gave 64 Ds, of rubber in 10 days fata three Sal cats at the base." That, of course, is equal to 130 lbs., in your DE 200 days," and beats the 62 pounder completely. Det. then we remember that friend Baxendale wazed very wroth with us when we charged That the Memerudum and Articles of him with underestimating production in Association of the Association be ordes to made out a case win-Go- respectively extended, altered and remment per cent duty. If anyone -amended so as to read as shewn in will hunt'ap what he said aloud yielda in the print aigned for the purpose of the famous official letter which we, in our identification, by the Chairman of optimism, ventured to criticise, they will thia Meeting and that such extended. not find any reference to phenomenal out. altered and amended Memorandum puts. In those days, and it is only about and Articles of Asscelation be hence.

4 year ago, Baxendale was championing forth adopted as the Memorandum the most beavily taxed agricultural and Articles of Association of the industry in the worl.". Association to the exclusion of thoar

We differ from "Ajax" to the extent of heretofore prevailing

believing that be exaggerates the evil posi AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN tion of the newer companies. As to those that the asid Petition la directed to be the prospectuses may be a mero tiesto of Sutside Malaya we say nothing, because before The Honourable Sir Francis Figgott, lies. But, while fully, persuaded that there K.. Chief Justice of the said Court, onun been a good deal of reckless valuing, I Monday, the 22nd day of Angust, 1910, at 10.30 o'clock in the forsscon and any we believe that, with one or two ex paraon interested in the said Association, ceptions, all the Malayan companies are in position to work up a fair profit on the whether as creditor, policy holder or other

wise and desiring to oppose the making of face value of their shares. "Ajax," speak. BD Order for the confirmation of the said ing of Maincess, says: "I Malaccas are alterations under the Companies Ordinance at any 15, and they drop to 13, buy some; 1865, should appear at the time of hearing if they drop again to, say 1, buy more, by himself or by bia Counsel, for the par.and Ro un till, sooner or later; but none pose. A copy of the asid Petition will be the less sarely, the time will come when furnished to any such person requiring the, we could make a similar estimato on

your snow has become a show man.' same by the Undersigned on payment of the regulated ebarge for the aime.

Dated the 19th day

of Jelp, 1910. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Prines's Buildings,

Ico Hoane Street,

And

Victoria, Bongkong,

PLATT, TEESDALE & MACLEOD, Ewo Balding, 3e Paking Road,

Shanghai, Solicitors for the about nazad Ascociation. 200

NOTICE.

PRANSLATE your LETTERS, COM.

the theoretical yield value of the Malacca Plantations. But rubber is of no valse in the trees when it cannot hd got out. At this moment, Malacca Plantations has 750,000 trees about 5 years old or over. and from these, even on the cautious Malcolm Cumming calo, there should have been a yield of bout a million pounds ut rubber during the past half year. The

wen 147,500 Actual output has

Ibe. What about the 852,500 lbs. that bas not be harvested? Do not the figures supply a warning against basing fore casts and estimates on high predictions We are not criticising of average output? the company itself because we are noll aware of the difficulty of getting enough TMERCIAL PAPERS, DISCUSSIONS. skilled tappars to operate on ancha buge etc., etc. in English, German, French Bintaccas will pay a far dividend. But Arun, and avon at the small output Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Chinese, its figures cannot be ignored, and we do Japanese. Malay, and Indian. Copios Typewritings, Stenographs, all kinds of not consider that it is prudent to exhort in- clerical work, Private Codes and Ciphers, vestors to buy shares by dazzling them with unrealizab'e totals. Trus and Accounts, etc, etc. will be effected with care, secrocy, promptness and others who write to the same effect: To the far, however, we do agree with "Ajax " and man who mu afford to buy shares in the well- stablished, dividend paying companies, the preseut prices should be no bar. In most cases they are a perfectly sound investment, E46 with a prospect of greatly increased erine in the fature. Wo inve still to learn what tho. yicki will be from trosa in their tonth (to twentieth years nst isclated trees but noren of then. It is generally put down at about 500 lbs, per acre, and wo should certainly hesitate to ggote a larger #gere for averago, though it is quite possible that it might be ezcooded in a good many cases. On the speculative side of riibber fines we dust speak with more didenca. The bigger boom" may come, but it would be rash concludo that it FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT will come very soon. Eighteen month

moderate term.

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For particulars apply to

GENERAL TRANSLATORS, P. U. Box 103, Hongkong. Hongkong, July 5, 1910.

VIENNA CAFE COMPANY ́ (1910), LIMITED,

(RECONSTRUCTED).

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ago, a great deal of capital was lying at dupesit interest with the banks because

AFTERNOON TEAB, ICES, LIGHT | there was a general fueling of depression

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AN EXTERITE MODERN BALENY. A-FRENCH CHEF. Hongkong, July 23, 1910,

201

and few things in the "industrial" line were tempting to capital. The bota has some, and the spare capital has go into it to tha extint of perhaps fifteen or twenty millions sterling. The margin of specula tion in narrowód, therefore, because people havo nobmoney to play with. The investor may do well, bat it is not how what it was few months ago-sale to buy because prospects of selling at an advantage before the purchaso-bacame embarrasing wore almost certaintice-The diraita Pime.

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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1910.

Intimations.

TORIC lenses are ground with a deep ner curve. This inner curve of the TORIC conforms to every movement of the eye and makes the sight equally clear in every portion of the glass.

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