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THE

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTE.

ENTIRELY

NEW STOCK

ARRIVING. SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY

CHOSEN BY OUR

M. R.

ROBINSON,

NOW IN EUROPE.

GREAT

REDUCTIONS

PUBLIC COMPANIES

A. 8. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE "ONGKONG DAILY PRSS, SATURDAY DECEMBER 5TH 1903.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND on account of the your 1903 at the rate of Fifty Cents per Share (or Fire Per Cent on the Capital of the Company) will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, Hongkong, on und after MONDAY, the 30th instant,. on Warrants to be obtained from the undersigned. Local Shareholders are requested to apply at the Company's Ofles for their Warranta.

MR. CHAMB LAIN'S BIRMING -

HAM SEECH.

On the night of the 4th alt, Mr. Chamberlain appeared before his constituents and addressed a meeting of 10,00 people in the Bingley Hall, Birmingham. For many s-ata four guineus each was paid. Thousands of people were disappointed by not obtaining admissive to the ball

Mr. Chamberlain, on rising to speak, had a immense reception. He said he was grateful so

mined frestreders, now rapport a Government pledged to stop unfair foreign competition and dumping. The fros fooder protest, les against protection than against preference to the

colonice.

* Dirídend will also be payable at the many recognised that his ideala were no delusions sake never negotiala with your friends in the

of a madmaD. He was convinced that the workers would keep an open mind, and that they would not necresstily consider it blasphemous to readapt a policy 50 years old to medain require

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HANK, Bhanghai, on presentation of Warrants there, on and after the same date.

The REGISTER of SHARES will be until MONDAY, the 30th instant, both days CLOSED from MONDAY, the Zird instant, inclusive, daring which period no Transfer of Shares will be regist-red.

By Order,

menta.

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A POTULAR DELUSION. Hin opponents declared, Mr. Chamberlain said, that in the days of protection the country A. H. MANCELL,

was in a state of unexampled misery and Secretary.

3156 destitution owing to the corn laws and Hobgkong. 14th November, 13.

protection, and that when those restrictive Inwe THE CHINA TRADER'S INSURANCE were repealed there was a magical change to

COMPANY, LIMITED.

cheap food and universal prosperity, all resulting from the fiscal changes, That was NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

popular delusion. If that contratia of the TOTICE IS HER BY GIVEN that the freatraders was correct, how did they seroant MEETING at SHAREHOLDERS in th above Company will bheld at the HEA OFFIC, Victoris, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 8th Deo, at Twelve o'n ck Noos, for the purpose of eceiving the Report, of the Directors, together with State of Aennis to the 301 April lust, and of decla: ing

in our present stock of Pianos and Musical NOTHY EVENTH ORDINARY for the fact that protected countries warn

GoodN.

Our NEW TAU STOCK has arrived.

THE APOLLO

MASTER PIANO

PLAYER

THE BEST OF ALL

THREE STYLES: PRICE FROM $150 UP.

PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO. Adolina Patti (Baroness Cedorstrom) bas Tavan another great testimonial to the Apollo Pisto-plaser. She was so delighted with the instrument that was purchased by her leaf your that this second testimonial is ovan stranger than the first one that shỏ gave,

Mme. Fatti says that the Apollo nover has giren her the alightest trouble and that the new concart grand is one of the most wonderful and

perfect piano-players that she has Dfor Mavn,”

Hongkong, 15th ctober, 193

HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

Tags

DAILY FRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China horfur European taught workmen. Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHFE & CO., Established 1953.

Ftory Honsehold Requisite. Depot for Festmann'e Kodak Filmand Accessories:

12, Queen's Road Central, CHEONG LEE & CO., Forcitors Stre Established over 20 years. Importers wil Exportere, Teakwood Furniture, Blask- wood, Jowellary, &c., highest gale. best and obespest. E, Queen's Road

Central.

JEWELLERS

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS

Diamond Merchants and W ́stelinakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Also at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Iloilo

PHOTOGRAPHER

Dividends.

The TRANS RB OKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th just, to the

th proxima, be a daya inclusive.

By Urder of the Board of iruclark..

JAMES WHI TALL

Secretary. Hongkoop, 17th November, 19 2,

[3160

DOUGLAS STEAM-HIP COMPANY, ·

LIMITED

WE SHARE CRFICATE No. 23 THE STARE CR mbered 221112

progressing much more rapidly than ourselves?

PROSTELITY UNDER PLOTECTION.

MR. ASQUITH'S FEARS. "While sympathising with consolidation of the Empire," Mr. Asquith thinks that dirnelly you negotiate with the colonies you will quarrel. You may negotiate with for. signers and cepelnds treaties on the most ticklish subjects with them, but for heaven's

colonies. The Imperial council which ha favours, and which the colonists have already tw.co rojacted na prematare, if stablished would deal with those delicate matters of Imperial defence and Imperial taxation. Yet Mr. Asquith thinks their sentiment and good feeling too brittle to talk about a tax on brasowork. I believe that no may as safety negotiate with chem as with any people on the face of the earth. They wil meet us with a greater desire to come together than angono

eluo.

LOLOSIES OFFERED FREFERENCE.

r. Asqui heya that the colonies will not show it aligutest inclination to respond, and will offer nothing in rete a. I woud where

derives his asiounding ufurpation. I am not presumptuous enough to pre- Mr. Chamberlain then stored into a loug diet borehand xctly what each colony histories argument to show that years of great will de la uasus which have not ariseo, but I am askest for a preferon int sp-tom of tariffs, and prosperity under protection had plstad Englande uid na they will do sigul. At any rate, they in lae foremost rank of nations, with absolute commercial sapremsey over the world. The coal representatives were not repudiated oresis of 1941, he said, was not flus to protection when they rotaroud to their States.

FROM PIER TO PEAK

LAMBERT AND BUTLER'S FRONTIER MIXTURE 18 SMOKED BY ALL HIGH-CLASS TOBACCO SMOKERS.

FRONTIERBRA

ENED

MANUFACTURED BY- Both

or to the dear loaf, but to bad trad and over-parties in Kanada favour recíprocity. The production. B. curl was then wuch cheaper than it had been many times since (bo repeal of th curu lass. The Chartiste instigated the riots Their leaders to secura leteral refo ma

Freers of the Commonwealth of Australia and of New Zea and have inade recíprocal profuretos a landma article of their programınes, Mr. G. Roil the buder of the Opposition in

MIXTURE

LAMBERT & BUTLER'S BRANCH, BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, LIMITED

opped those who were working for the realho Comitit, is sorted to have offered NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES

of the corn lawa. he freetrade agitation was of the manufacturers, not of the workers,

PROSPERITY UNDER FREETRADE.

inolne va, at uding in the ra ixter in the nam

Quoting from Cobden and Mongridion, he of 10M GREAVES GOWLAND having bren lost, NOTIO IH REBY GIVEN said that the unp walled pensperity of the Rest that unless the said Cerificate be prodnerd st the Ocs of the DOUGLAS STEAMSHIquarter of a con urg after the repeal of the corn CO., LD. Victoria, Il ng ong, hefore 17 h Lame was due to the gold discoveries and to the extend of railways, and the increase of DECEMBER, 103, a new certiflote for the vaid share will be issued and the old certifiente

steamere stimulating trade. Then the previous policy of protection which she had enjoyed anavled England to take advantage of the bem. Apart from the non-fulfilment of Cobden's expectation of an era of free exchange between the nations a great change had occurred over the political and commercial relations of the colonies.

and void.

will thereafter be held by the Company as all

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Mona... OTH.

[3.73 ongkong, 17th November, 1913. HUMPHREYS' ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

HAREHOLDERS are hereby notifed that

in accordance with the Special Res lutions passed on 31st October, and confirmed on 18th November, 1913, they are sutitied on application" a silatut of one share for every two old shares hed by them. Forme of application will be sent to avery shareholder.

The sum of $2.50 per share will be payable. on appliction, on or before the 4th of January, 1904, Two months notice of any calls will be given.

Sharehollers desirous of paying on or before the 4th January, 194, the whole amount payable in respect of their shares, end do so, Bud io sach event will receive fally paid up scrip in exchange.

1904.

The new issue will rank for Dividend pro rata from 1st January, 1904, according to the amount paid on such claires on 4th January, The Register of Shares will be closed from 17th December, 1905, to 4th January, 1904, both days inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

[3917 Hongkong, let December, 1903,

AVID CORSAR

D MERCHANT NAT

& BON

to give the therisulu preforeach of 50 per Cent South Africa has given a preference of 25 per ceps. Item-mbring the response of the colonies in our time of stress. I am but prepared to treat hit proposals with cont mpt. I be. lieve that we can negotiate without a quiered. I am confident that they will show the same generosity and patriotiam ne ourselves.

SECURINO HOME THADE.

DYNAMITE,

GELATINE-DYNAMITE.

BLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,

DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,

"I am astonished at Mr. Asquith accusing me of ignoring the bome markets, since it is the zaain object of my orneade to secure a strong home te dr and make Great Britain the centre of a self-sustaining Empire If our foreign trade declines, and dumping continnen, the home trade will suffer even if it is peasperous. An Mr. Asquith Links, I do not sympathise with the fallacy anderlying the contention that secondary and inferior industries may replaca the primary

AGENTS- Apart from industries; thus when the aigar industry is destroyed try jam, whes iron has gone make mensstraps, when the cotton industry is threa ead try making dolls' eyes.

BOME INSTANCES OF DUMPING..

VALUE OF COLONIAL TRADE. The trade of the colonies with Great Britain had increased by leaps and bounds, concealing the deficiency in cur foreign trade. affection and gratitude it was to our interest to stimulate the prosperity of the colonies, At present emigrants from Great Britain chiefly settled under a foreign dag, and the Empire lost their support. If. those emigrants settled, in Canada they would each buy £2 worth of British goods a year. If la Australia, £5 or £6, and if in South Africa wore. It was better to develop the colonial trade than to pis: up foreign crumbs. Everything contributing to increase the prosperity of the colonies and fill up their waste linds would react favourably on the wetherland. If you are not sympathetic to the colonies," said Mr. Chamberlain, and do not listen to them because they have adopted a policy different to yourselves, if you reject their patriotio offers, which are partly inspired of 1897 the Americans dumped £400,000

"The building trade is one of the few batamily protected. Mr. Asquith says 1 produce few instances of decaying indas. I could produce scores and scores. trics,

brass manufactures, Jewelry, the smaller and the making of pearl buttons srg all in. suffered heavily by foreign tariffs. British stances appealing to Birmingham. All have exports of cycles to foreign protected countries fell by £566,000 in 10 years, while during the the colonies rose came year exports to

the depression

by

£967,000.

During

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AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES,

MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT

HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHAIWEL

JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.

JAPAN

COALS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA (MITSUI & CO.

HEAD OFFICE1, SUBUGA-CRO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH:-34, JIME STREET, B.C..

HONGKONG BRANCH-PRISCA'S BUILDINGS, Ice HouSU STRERT

OTHER BRANCHES/

by a desire to co-apora e with you in the task of worth of ojeles in Great Britain and £349,009 New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singaporo, Sonra'ays, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai sustaining the Empire, the opportunity may worth in the colonies, all of which Great Without the bond of commercial Britain could have produced under my policy." CANVAS unity you will nover secure Imperial Federa-

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MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.

3. MUMEYA, JATANESE ANTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photon and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work

done for Amateurs; Ifo. 8a, Queen's | 4.1,

Boad Central,

PRINTING

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

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Yeasels in the Harbour

KWONG SAND & CO.,

Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Provisioners, Coal Merchants, Hardware, Engineers Tools, Brass and Iron Merchants,

144, Der Vour Road.

WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO.,

14, Queen's Road Central. Repaire 11. Watches and Clooks by competent Europesu experte, at moderate rates

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CODE WORD: "DOCK". NAGASAKI. A B.C, Scotts and Engineering Code

Used: DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAML)

523 foot 519

Extreme Length...

Length on Blocks

Width of Entrance on Top

89

#

Width of Entrance on Bottom...

**

+

Water on Blacks at Spring Tide

26

11

DOCK No. 2 (st MUKAIJIMA)

Extreme Length...

Length on Blocks

971 feet 350

Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrano on Bottom...

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

86, 53

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WORKS are well equipped with the LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD ING and MARINE ENGINEERING na wel an in REPAIRING of SHIPB.

The COMPANT haa➜ SALVAGE BTEAMER, 719 TONS GROSS, FITTED Sith POWERFUM SALVAGE PLAN

1677 WEADY it SHORT NOTICE

ARGUS DE LA PRESSE. FONDÉ EN 1897. OUR être sûr de ne pas laisser échapper POUR stressi Paurait nommé, il cuis abonné é l'Argus de la Presse, "qui lit, découpe, et traduit tous les journaux du monde, et en fournit is extraits sur n'importe quel sujet."

Hector Malot (Zyle, p. 70 et 920) Agus de la Presse fournit sax artistes, litters tours, savants, hommes politiques, tout ce qui parait sur leur compte dans les journaux et rernes du monde entier,

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L'ARGUS LIT 5,000 JOURAUX FAR JOURNA

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tion."

FREETRADERS AND THE COLONIES, The frostrade leaders in 1846, he continued, were not enthusivetio towards the colonies, Cobden and a large party hoped that the ties would be loossaed. Now circumstances had changed. He (Mr. Chamberlain) sometimes questioned if modern fnstreders had really abandoned their antiquated views, whether they really desired closer relations with the colonies. The speeches of Bir W. Vernon-Harcourt, of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and Mr. Leonard Courtney did not reveal a true appre ciation of what empire meant, or any sympathy with this great ideal of the British people, "I cannot san," Mr. Chamberlain continued, "that they care a brass button about Imperial unios, but only about the anion of the Radical jarty.

THE ATTITUDE OF FREE-FOODERS, "I do not attribute slilar views to Mr. C. T. Ritchie, Viscount Goschen, the Duke of. Devonshire, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, though I am totally unable to understand their position. They seem Imperialists in theory, but little Englanders in practice. They, wish to see Imperial union, but they refuse to do Sir Michael Hicks- anything to secure it. Beach refused to grant a preference to Austra lian wine, also to Lading tea, to a lonist sagar,

CONCLUSION.

Mr. Chamberlain ridicaled the arguments of the big loaf and the little loaf, and exhibited two loaves baked to exact weights--the one with | free flour and the other with taxed four-for the one price to show the loss under the corn tax he proposes. Personally he said he was unable to see the difference in their ele. incident convulsed the meeting.

This

Mr. Chamberinin spoke for two hours with wonderful vivacity. A resolution approving of his policy was passed by the meeting.

CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS are warranted to cure, in other sex, all acquired or constitional Diharges from the Urinary Organs, Gravel, and Pains in the Back. Free from Mercury. Established upwards of $0 years. In Boxes is. 6d sach, of all. Chemste. And Patent Medicine Venders throughout the World. Proprietors, THE LINCOLN AND MID- LANE COUNTIES DRUG COMPANY, Lincoln, England.

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HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDING.

XMAS 1903.

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AND

and to colonial corn. He refused to do a little E A GREAT VARIETY OF TOYS

etter for var brothers than for strangers. That is not an Imperialist policy. The Free. food League, who first professed to lie deter

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MIDZUSHIMA & CO.

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Hongkong, 4th March, 1903.

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{2319 Hongkong, 1st December, 1903.

GRACA & CO.,

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DEALERS,

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