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BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPAST LIMITED,"

MEARS

ESSRS, BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

appointed

GENERAL AGENTS of the above Company for Fire Insurance for Hong Long and Chiam.

By Order of this Bourbet Directives..

C. H. P. HAY,

per pro. General Manager.

Hongkong, August 8, 1917.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

SEVENTH ORDINARY

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TRARLY MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS in the chave Company-will be lied at the Company's Orizo Sr. CHOROKA Beinerva. Hongkong. WEDNESDAY, August 15th, 1917 at 11:30 a.g for the porpse of preserving the Report of the General Managers, and Statement of Accounts to May 31st,

1917

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will

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Amgist (th to 15th, 1917, both clays

nclusive..

GORDON & CO.

Gruenil Mangers.

Hongkong, August 4, 1917, i

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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOVAL EXAMINATIONS,

THESE EXAMINATIONS will con

on MONDAY, Debumber

mence

Toth, 1917.

Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at ang town where a suficient number of Candidates offer Candidates who wish to

themselves any other place "than

be

Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar on or before" September 2nd, 1817

Forms of entry and all particulars can I obtained on application to the

Begistrar, The University, Hongkong.

The entry form, duly filled in, must reach the Registras, together with the fee (Ten Dollars, Hongkong Currency)! on or before end, 191

Four Cush

will be awarded on the results of the Matriculation Exami nation, provided that Candidates of sufficient merit offer themselves,

Candidates who secure tash prizes must enter the University, on January Bid, 1918, and must reside in one of the hostels directly manager by the University,

The Examinations will be conducted acording to the "Regulations. for the Senior and Junior Local Examinatins and for the Matriculation Examination,

1917,

Amglong, August R, 1917. *- 2002

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION. of the

PAPER FULF MILL. Situated at VIETRY, (TONKIN). THIS MILL is built upon a property .1 measuring 144,000 sq. meters, and consista of the following buildings and machinery

1. EIGHT brick-buildings, with iron pillars and beans. Corrugated iron roofs. Twa shuds with corrugated irco roof.

Find required INR of the for making Paper

Fulp.

3. TWO European residénces.

+

The above Property will be sold by

Public Auction at PEU-THO (Tonkial,

on the 1st day of September, 1917.

INDIA'S

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"CAPSTAN"

For Flavour. NAVY CUT

For Quality.

IN MILD-MEDIUM & FULL STRENGTHS FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is issued by the

'HOARDED

WEALTH."

AGGREGATE. PROBABLY NOT

ABOYE £100,000,000.

BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBAČ00 Co., Ltd).

Benares. Ahmedabad, Delhi and Luck now will have some idea of the quantity of gold and silver consumed in these in dustries in their halcyon daya. Gilt and tinsel aave now largely replaced the pre- cious metals, in the art industries. In jewellery and personal ornaments also

of the native States are credited as possessing substantial cash balances in their treasuries; but it in doubtful if the aggregate of such larger hoards will amount for the whole of India to more than a bundred millions sterling

there are actuations in the nonlara gently, there is little reason to

An article by Mr A. C. Chatterjee,. villages and silversmiths are ber of

1.C.S., appears in a recent issue of "The

Indiaman, and from it we take thend re-making them in new tiny huard pieces of

following:-

that a rupee or two-rupee aste. and all Indians know that the currency note will release a large num-

ber of hoarded rupees.

The illiterate in melting down old peasant is not likely to prefer for his which he of paper wh There is always a lots in these cannot reuri, and which are exceedingly transformstions.

liable to loss by fire an

and insects. The almost inaumerable hards of coined to

The belief that there are in India It is impossible to estimate the aggre- peasants hoards will come to light only

Value of the gold and silver jewellery with the fullest development of co

operative credit. The owners out of the precious metals into the visitors are liable to fall into the error bigger hoards will also see no advantage. and uncoined silver is based on the study Belonging to Indian women, but casas!

aty during the last two thousand of a very serious over-estimate. The in substituting small-hive notes

These larger hoard are being References to this fact are to be village women in all parts of India wear rupees.

The art of

of the

the

as far back as the time of Pliny. heavy loads of ornaments on their arms steadily converted into capital with the Rowever, the economic history of India and portions of such only men is in sive employment is the dayclopment of ble is yet unstudied and anwritten.

ornaments is of silver. in hus far been little attempt to piece inferior metals has been carried to a of day both the smaller and the larger giving a silver coating to country, Indrawing out into the light together the isolated facts that

that are avail. able relating to the external trade high finish in India, and the bright sun board an abiding behef in the continuity of the different States that con-adds to the deception of the observer. of a reign of law and order is also essen

stituted India is the early NOM NOMINE

ages

Attention has been mainly to the seaborne trade of

Indi

HOARDS NOT NUMEROUH.'

It is exceedingly doubtful whether the actusi number of hoards of coin and

RESERVE PRICE $100,000. (One with the West, whence, the precious bellion in Indis is really large when Hundred Thousand Dollars Indo-Ching metals came; but comparatively little allowance is made for the immense Corrency)

known to the general reader, or even population and extent of the country. immense trade that was always carried The political insecu

Further particulars may be obtained ou application to the undersigned.

Ch. DI LANSALUT,

Solicitor for the Liquidator

Haiphong. Hongkong. August 4, 1917.

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

HIGH CLASS

PIANOS

SALE 08

HIRE.

CASH OF

CREDIT.

FOR

TUNING & REPAIRING

A SPECIALITY,

to the student, with regard to the

on between India and the countries on many,

insecurity that prevailed

tracta of India until about

ky eard 1go mast hava its land frontier; or between India and strengthened the instinct of hoarding, the Eastern Archipelago, Burmah, Malay, but it is equally certain that the secret Siam, China and Japan by ses Thereof r

many hoards, both large

cotton

goods

of the West.

No

INTERNATIONAL OBLICATIONS.

and.it

tial.

THE INDUSTRIAL LESSONS OF

THE WAR..

to

To-day we are living on the threshold of new heavens and a new earth, and she Utopian dreams of the pits Across 2012 was a keen demand in Western countries now entirely unknown brings some we see matters in a new light, and a

possibilities, if not probabilities. for forest and agricultural produce of accident that

only the graves

of our dead sons and brothers realiso tropical India and also for and other of disons and lungernder present that their blood babush Brusian pad

its industrial of them

been largely wasted corresponding among the peasants and all other while leaving class hatred an active as demand existed in India for the produce classes in India that it must have

ever at home. In the trenches it already absorbed mat of the substantial has no existence. There is a mutual hoards that may have existed at the

sad beginning of Biitish rule.

Famine

respect On the other hand, the silks of China

and and

goodwill between officers With constant emulation mon and Japan, the valuable spices of the

have always been familiar in brave deeds and nets of kindness. In incidents the Archipelago, the mineral products

in the economic life of India the ghastly, realit

realities of war petty ad horses, and cattle, the wool and the It would be naturally expected that the vantages and mean suspicious are seen a famine would release in their true value, and are freely cast pashm of High Asia had an extensive pressure

Neither a market among the princes and the people large number of hoards.

away as encumbrances in the Kreit ets nor

It would be struggle towards victory perience and i realise that brotherhood of man which never shines so

so brightly na or the battlefield. That is imposible. but there is a feeling abroad that some approximation to it could and should attained, and that in the first instance it should find expression in better rela- tions on both sides between master and man-Engineering.

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of Judia." So far as can be judged, India detailed observation in the districts had little to export in the shape of her the returns of the currency department grand if we could all undergo this ex- own products to these countries. The indicate that any such result has fol international obligations thus arining lowed A famine during the last fifty could not have been mutually adjusted years. The experience of the co-opers without the actual export of gold and tive credit societies also discredits the silver because there was

Was no direct com- theory of "the countless hoards" of India. merce between Europe and Egypt and

the Far East. It is, therefore, probable

that

AN AGGREGATE OF £100,000,000

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& considerable portion of the metals Life in India is so open, and the in- that India received from the West interest taken by Indians in the affairs of exchange for her goods was re-exported, their neighbours is so notoriously keen. partly by sen to the countries and islands that it is almost impossible for anyone of the Far Fast and partly land to to possess anything like a big hoard the regions beyond the

without giving rise to rumours and -the Hindu Krah mount imaisya and

suspicions. It is not therefore difficult,

A survival of this state of things is to 200 evidence of this type, to make a traced even at the present day, whan | ebrowd guess of the probabla number of land borne trade of India is almost hoards in a local area. In the Gangetic insignificant compared with her mari provinces with. which mostly

tbo

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time trade, and when the character of familiar, a few large boards are possessed her trade intercourse with Eastern Asia by individuals here and there, and some has also completely changed. As pointed

out by MrJM-Keynes in his work on

recorded

and Finance,

adian trade overland YOUR HEALTH AND

show

a large balance against : India. KING EDWARD HOTEL which is probably met by an unrecorded

Central Loontion.

LL Exacta TRAMI “Paar Entrance,

·Electriä. Lifts, Fans and › Lighting, European" Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Gold Water System throughout.

·Best of Food and Service,

WITCHELL Manooer.

APPEARANCE

export of gold, silver bullion and rupeen." This prodes has been going on for both saffer if you are a victim to centuries.

WASTAUR OF PRECIOUS"MÉTALS.

Apart from this factor of normal trade

constipation. The remedy is

PISKATTES

Payments, it has also to be remembered that there has always been a conrider- uble wastage of the precious metals in India. Gold and silver have been

much

the little gentle-as-nature laxatives more extensively used in thaitviastrial hich dispel constipation, liverishness,

|inturas beadscher, clear the com arts in that country than perhaps anand purify, the breath. Of all chemi where else in the world. Leaving entire ly out of question the manufacture of or post free 60 cent the will, from

jewellery, those acquainted with the

Da Shanghai

Williams Medicizie Cop:98 Szechuan

numerous art industries of cities like

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