1910-09-08 — Page 2

Intimations.

G FALCONER & Co..

LIMITED,

WA10H-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. HOTHL MANSIONS. Telephone No. 983,

WEW BELINCTIONA OF

DIAKOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH (BALYZER, WARE' HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES; GARGE BELLOTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWIA, ETTÄ ŻALDONNE ♣ Do, axx Andres rox HOSS'S FAMOUR TELESCOPES ANT

BINOCULARS, FORD KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY CHARTS and BOOKS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER:

WING KEE & CO.,

Nos. 17, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL [HIP-CHANDLERS SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL MERCHANTS, Mo., ds., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING, CHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL

FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager. Hongkong, Angust 17, 1908.

I

MEE CHEUNG &

1317

ART PHOTOGRAPHER, ICE HOUSE LANE, SPECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORK. Select Views of Hongkong and South. Chinn. Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs

CAMERAS FOR HIRE,

TRY

R...

1718

WEISMANN'S

PURE FRESH COFFEE

A. A

Roasted and ground on

premises daily.

IN SLD AND 1 LB. TINS.

Hongkong, July 20, 1910.

our

80

WHITE ANTS.

AVENARIUS. CARBOLINEUM

THE BEST

*

WOOD

PRESERVATIVE.

30 YEARS' SUCCESS

THE ONLY EFFECTIVE AND

LASTING PROTECTION

AGAINST

"WHITE CANTS.

GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS.

SOLE AGENTS:

MELCHERS & CO.

NATURAL

ENO'S

HEALTH-GIVING

FRUIT

REFRESHING

SALT

INVIGORATING

THE CHINA MAIL, LTD.

AKES

ALL SORTS OF ARTISTIC JOB-PRINTING

such as:

INVITATION CARDS, MENUS, DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMER, CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS, BOOKS, PROSPEC TUSES, WINE LIBIS, ETC., ETC,, ETC. Obtain quotations from,

THE OHINA MAIL OFFICE,

Wyndham Street.

European Supervision

Intimations.

MITSUBISHI GOSHIKWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO)

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE "TIMES " ON, THE JAPANESE TARIFF.

To a leading ar:le on the nor Japaness; tariff, the votes saYA --

"Japan has been revising her fiscal ar rangements, and the result is now before, the world in the shape of

new tariff, shapo of a of which we give a summary to-day. It

comes into force, on July 1, 1911, on the termination. of the conventional tros- ties with Great Britain, Germany, ind France, in virtue of the year's notics re COAL DEPARTMENT. contly given by Japan. During the most

elovon months it is open to other coun-: trics to conclude trenties, with. Japin SOLE PROPRIETORS of which may idemo.degree mitigate the SIMA, OCEL MUTABE, HOJO, effecia of the now tariff. But Count Ro NAMAKUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW

mura has given nation that such trentios and KAMIYAMADA Collories.

will in future he strictly bilateral, not upilateral, as are some of the existing

HEAD OFFICE :~TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES:- Nagasaki, Moji, Karatsu, Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka, Shanghai, Hongkong. Hankow

SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDARE, MIroaties. That to say, that Japan will no longer, grant favours to say nation. TAO, and KIGIO-KOMATSU Coals.

She will negotisto on equal terms and not otherwise. She will give tariff coupessions to any country that chooses to give con- cassion to her which in her opinion are of equal value lo this connection Count Komura dispassionately remarks that, 'E Great Britain ia pursuing what is called a Frea Trado policy, there is no room for n Convention with liat country. Wo have" nó adváúlages to offer to Japan, and con- sequiontly Japan has nono to siffer to us. British goods seeking entry into Japan will” therefore have to face the new General Latif inallitsrigour. In that taril' the deprosos of duty are few and comparatively unimport ant, while the incrasscs are hoy and numeroes It happens that they fall moss heavily upon goods exported from this

TL AUDRRELED for abore: IWASARI. Code:-A1, ABQ 5th Ed., Western Union.

+

&

AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq. CHINKIANG: Messrs Gearing

Co. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &

Co.

\

for particulars, apply wa

H. OISHI,

Manager,

No. 2, PEDDED STREET,

BONGKONG. Hongkong, January 9, 1909

4

THE CHINA LIGET AND POWER

COMPANY; LIMITED,

country. It is estimated that the average

increase of duty upon British goods is 66 per cent, while on goods from all countries

the average incronso is only 50 per ceat, This is not the result of any desiro, on the part of Japan to boar Indeed, hardly upon this country

the now tariff in not inspired by in desire to deal hardly with any country. It is inspired simply and solely by the $16desire to do what is best for Japan and

for Japanese industries. It is the busi Beas of Japanese statesmen to promote the well-being of their own country, all other nations being free to pursue the same self-regarding policy upon their o ac const British exports consist mainly of things which the Japanese are anxious to manufacture for themselves; hooon, this country is more heavily hit than those which export things with which Japanese Indugay is leha directly concufaed;

THE NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLD

In the Company will be held at the of the CourANT. St. George's-Building No. 6, Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, 17th September 1918, at Noan; for the purpose of receiving Statement of counts and Report of the General Manager for the year ending 31st July4910, and elpoting a Consulting Committes and Auditors,

Thus the Japanese are bent upon ex- tanding und doreloping their textilo in dustries, and as a consequence the new tariff will be very prejudicial to the man 1074facturers of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong. September 2, 1910,

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.

THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET.

ING of the Shareholders to the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices, on SATURDAY, the 24th Septem-

bar, at Noon, for the purpoer of receiving the Report of the General Managera; toś gether with a Statement of Accounts to the 30th Jana, 1910.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Come pany will be CLOSED from 9th to 24th September, bath days inclnélve,

DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & C...

General Managers. Hongkong. September 3, 1910. 1079

CHEONG HING.

ITAS ALWAYS ON HAND

A LARGE ASORTMENT OF OURIUS, PUEUELÄIN, JADESTONE AND SILK EMBROIDERIES.

INSPECTION SOLICITED.

BUSINESS

Intimations.

J. T. SHAW,

Tailor & Outfitter,

HONGKONG HOTEL, QUEEN'S BOAR.

Hongkong. November 1, 1909

G.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 8, 191d

TORICS

THE BEST IN LENSES.

{TELEPHONE

(No. 1981

Intimations.

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

TORIOS will set closer to the eye than the ordinary flat lens thus doing away with the annoying reflections from the edge of the glass.

For those who wish the very best in

lenses we recommend TORICS."

J

pre-

We manufacture TORICS on all scriptions in White, London Smoke or.

Amber

CLARK & Co.

CIENTIFICHOR

HOTEL MANSIONS BLDG." HONGKONG

Hongkong, July 26, 1910.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIE. TEEN CENTS per Share for the Six Months ending 30th of June, 1910, will be payable on the 12th day of Septem- ber 1911 on which dato: DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on applick 1381tion at the Company's Office.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF: HONGKONG.

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION;

In the Matter of the Companies' Ordin- ances of Hoogkong 1885 to 1886

and.

In the Matter of the HONGKONG &

MANILA: YUEN SHENG. Ex- change and Trading Company, Limitod,

NOTICE ta' hereby gires that His.

Noon lagh Fides Piggott, Knight, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, has by an Order dated the 23rd day of August, 1910, appointed · LAU QAU PAR (21) 5 (8) of Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-

ENTRANCE

on

FEDDER STREET

WANTED,

AILY NURSERY GOVERNESS for

from 9 to 17; til 6.50 7.3.

Apply with references and salary regale od to

"A. B. B.,'. Cirs of "ChikA-BÍATE” OROS Hongkong, September 6, 1910.1099

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 10th day of September, 1910; both days |— thelusive.

WANTED,

AAAAA

"SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., BY Lady in Shanghai NURSEL

General Managers.

European preferred, for one” little girl, age 4 Applicant most be a good needlewoman. Write stating age, refer ences, &c., to

Hongkong, August 25, 1910,

1038

JAPANESE MASSAGE-

Masseur MEIJI SHA,

GRADUATE OF

KOBE MASSAGE SCHOOL,

ARTENDANCE. AT PATIENTS' RISIDENCES. No: 171. WANCHAI ROAD, GROUND BLOGE.

Hongkong, June 2, 1910.

*[6

* SHANGHAI, "Care of :* Ompra Man'" Offon. Hongkong, August 22, 1910.

102

AUCTION SALE.

THE stranded ma' DAGMAR at the The at Kon-Parn Barbour (Ballekok quaresting station) will be sold by PUNGIO AUCTION on the 16th Baptember, Le

Separate offers för vogel and/or cargo are invited, by

WINDSOR & CO.,

Bangkok Agent

1024 Heugkoog, August 22, 1910."

Ordinary single and double cotton yama kong, Compradors to hosate 6: 3. WARD NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE OWEN BE WILKS & CO.,

will have to pay duties from 40 to 250 por cent, higher, than the existing raten. Woollen and warsted parze will pay in creance of from 30 to 120 per

sent. On! cotton pieco goods the duties are raised duties on Army cloths to from three to to from two to five times the existing || five times; on woollen coatings to from bao and half to four mes and on serged to air times the duties now psy xblo.

of kinds which Japan Machinery does not yet produce gets of more sally, but locomotives will have to pay nearly live times the existing duties, and printing minchinos, when account is taken of the sow basis of payment hy weight, will auffer a sovorely. There are substantial in

and Company, Limited, to be Oficial. Liquidator of the above named Company

Dated this 2nd day of September, 1910.

JH. KEMP, 1080

Registrar

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BONGKONG.

In

PROBATE: JURISDICTION.

the Goods of WILLIAM LY SAUGHT, decoused.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of Ordinance No. of 1897. made an Order limiting the time for creditors, and

creases all round in the iron cheathers to send in their claims against the

ne well as in other lending

groups, ne

of our trade with Japan. Upon the whole it is estimated that the new tarif will exclide from

⚫ million worth of the British

above estate to the 26th October 1910.

All Creditors and other persons Aro accordingly hereby required to sand their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.

to million "kod-quarters' of a goods now exported to Japan. In many of dutica more important classes the new the more i will prove prohibitive, and what remains of the trade will be only specialition

and

1070 articles for the consumption of the wani- thy alone.

Under the new tariff, charges will be made according to

to woight instead

of ad valorem This change is, upon the whole, welcomed by British tradera `SA tending to check fraud by under valuation, from which they have suffered in the past Bub

by waight obriously involto

by the according to value Jambola Canton's house. Power is taken WEDNESDAY, 19TH JULY. for the revision, of the specific rates thus

COMMENCED

HONGKONG, 77, QUEEN'S

CENTRAL.

Hongkong, July 11, 1910.

arrived as by the subdivision of classifica ROADT, in the steence of a Conventional tion at the pleasure of this anthoritīns.

680

treaty such as this country has no power to make, our traders will be subject, to grave uncertainty as to the duties which may be charged upon their goods." Con VIENNA CAFE COMPANYcts made to-day upon one basis may re-

ta a loss when the

goods are delivered three or six months, hence upon & DOW Customs basia introduced in the interim,

(1910), LIMITED,

(RECONSTRUCTED).

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

OPPORITE For Orric

Upon the principles en eloquently ex pounded by Mr. Asquith this now tarif must infict a damaging blow upon the commercial prosperity of Japan. That unfortunats country at prosent" groans under a a handicap of an average duty of 18 per cent. upon her imports. The cor FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT LAN will raise the burden to £3 per cent.

Table d'hoto or a In earra)," which must be regarded as crudiing" by faithful Cobdenito. Even a five per avery AFTERNOON TEAS, ICES, LIGHT cent. duty all round upon imports would

KEFRESHMENTS,"

A

Specially selected “brands of WINES, SPIRITS, BEERS, -eto.

An ExressivZ MODERN BAKERY, A

A FRENCH CHEF. Bengkong, August 23, 1910,

10:31

THE TYPHOON

MAP

MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD AND

TAPED FOR HANGING.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE IT.

Price Ten Cents,

From the CHINA MAIZ Ofios."

Moderate Prices Hongkong, Jane 28, 1910,

probably

regarded by Mr Asquith as sealing the doom of the United King dom. The Japaneso are careful studenta

Dated the 81st Angust, 1910:

DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON,

Solicitors for the mentor.

THE BIRD IN THE HAND

A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH).

HE bird fa the band to the elsat la the castogior within

the store. It requires some sort. of attraction in the first place to get the customer there-shout the best at- traction is a real, live advertisement; something good that will catch the eye that has been carefully written, artis tically compiled and strikingly not up. Advertisements in the China Mail and Overland China Mail read the best, look the best and give the bank rosalta,

Hongkong, April 12, 1810.

-484-

WING ON CO.,

of what goes on in this TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS

They are doubtless, perfectly familiar with the luminous essays in which Mr Asquith from time to time reiterates

the great contenton that every import duty

it

is a direct injury to the country imposing Tet hore wà find them, in the face of what is held irrefragable argument, calmly adding nearly fifty percent. to the import duties which, as they are told, must throttle their industry and destroy their power to compete with other nations. They apport, to have actually estimated for a decrease of two millions atorling

In their importa sa a consequence of the lacraneo

AVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIP.

MENTS OF

Drapery, Grocery, Iron- mongery, Crockery, Glass and

China Wäre, Furniture, Watches & Clocks.

1.

duties, and this although they are quite The Cheapness dod quality or Inmiliar with the great Cobdenito rave ation that imports are paid for with exports, and consequently that the less they Import the lows they can tell. It is extraordinary that

their Goods have no equal,

a highly intelligent ant progressive Orfeatal 209-213, DES VEUX ROAD

Fshould thus

pool bono brains we pra most freqciens..

with the Western agred.

CENTRAL,

CENTRAL,

ly called upon to admire, in Abalutly 107, CONNAUGHT ROAD repudiating the glorious doctrines of Froo- trade. It is even more extraordinary that the Oriental: like the Occidental nation prospers atowingly upon that repudiation, atid that both are'slaning more and more against the only economie truth, that the 815 world has known,'

Telephone 180."

ogkong, August 16, 110,

INSURANCE CO.

WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED, CHE- OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO.

197

TOTAL FUNDS AT SIT DECEMBER, 1900, £19,825,967.

1-Authorized Cáplál 76,00,000

Bu bezribed Caplis) £3,275,000· Pald-up Capital w £1,912,560,00

GENERAL & COMMISSION AGENT.

STOCÂU XEYT OF

SHIPOWNERS" ANTIFOULING

COMPOSITIONS

II-Fire Funds 3488:1986 TOR SHIP BOTTOMS (GREYROUND BLEND).

| III-H&Annuity Fundi 16,089,332;10,11 Sinking Fund Account' 85,388 30

£19,870,368/19′ 6 Bevanne Fire Branch... 9,852,998 17 10 Ella & Apocity 1,837,835 14 5

Branch { Marine Department 209,921 7. 8 35,252 8.1 Other Receiptaļasm

£4.45,806.7 19

The Accumulated Funds of the Firs and Life Departments are free from liability in respect of each other,

SHEWAN, TOMTY & CU

dormts......

ROSSTA INSURANCE COMPANY.

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

Total Aberto... Keblos 78,674,940,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that More MELORERS & CO. hers been Appointed, our AGENTS in Bong: kang.

1

Boferring to the abore Notice, we have taken over the Agency of the

ROSSIA INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PETERBERG,” KLUBBĽA, And we are prepared to Accept Urders for FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE (European and Chinese Risks) at Current Exfor

#00 MELCHERS

Casarsace Dept. dongkong, Febrakey 1, 1910.

WEEKLY NEWS

188

FOR HOME

ANTIFRICTION METALS,

GRIPOLY, BELTING, METALLIU FILAMENT and other. ELECTRIC LAMPS, FANS AND

SUPPLIES

48, Connaught Road Central TELEGRAM, WANDEROOR

Hongkong, August 9, 1902.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

EVERY KIND

Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.,

35, WELLINGTON STREET. Hongkong, May 5, 1910.

578

PATELL & CO.,

The Overland China Hall Exporters & Importers

FULL REPORTS.

LATEST INTELLAGENUE.

Order before you leave so you may reodive

"it while at Bomá

Price $14 per annum including postage.

W

THE Outra Mall, ETD

5. Wyndham Stree

WASHING BOOKS.

(In English and Chinaisti!

FISHERMAN'S BOOKS, for the des

of Gentlemen, in bo had at this Office.

Price, Z) Cece

Owina Mare Dolod. 5. Wyndham Stress.

General Merchants

and

Commission Agents

Hongkong-and Canton.

S-T-KI

TT-TRICAL CLAMI, Translated by B. J. EITIL

To be had at the Chora BAZ O

Pric