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HONGKONG JOTTINGS,

The rains of the past work have been as balti in Gill. An almost continuous downpour for six days ought to enable the Wator Authority in grant us a fall supply once again. The intermittent apply has en eenlinned this wear two months later than last your

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HONGKONG ELECTRIC

TRAMWAYS.

CARS OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME.

SUCCESSFUL KSPERIME PATS, On Saturday afternoon un electric car wont

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 4TH, 1904.

road surface was made up to rail level with con- crete and finished off with a smooth surface to: the proper canbro of the road.

supplied and all water passes through one or other of these before entering the boilers.

The chinmay, which is circular, is built of brick and is 153 feet in height. As Chinese bricklayers are unmerustorend to this class of work it presented greator difficulties in con- struction than any other portion of the work,and, as Hongkong is subject to typhoons of

exceptional noted Hovority,

kel to

3.

KODAKS! KODAKS!! KODAKS!!!

AND

PHOTO GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. We haveton Establishment Bolely dovoled to

Hongkong, 10th March, 1904.

NERNST

IZA, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Few Doors East of Hongkong Hotel

148

NERNST ELECTRIC LIGHT.

BEAUTY OF ILLUMINATION COMBINED WITH GREAT ECONOMY

AR CHEAP AS GAS!

PARTICULARS APPLY TO

The overhead construction has been carried out in a very neat manner, the length of urat on the centre poles not exceeding feet while

DEVELOPING AND PRINTING the arms on the side peles vary in length, the out for a run over a moction of the now Hong. majority of them heing six feet long. The be taken with both the foundations for Amateure, whore we turn out work of the best description and with great promptness.

the cureful building of the shaft. With the kong rails for the Arat time for the purpose poles are of mild stees, 28 feet 3 inches in length, exception of the foundations and the chimney

LONG, HING & CO., The Emperial Service Order which was in

of testing the cars. Mr. G. Deane was driv.7 inches in diameter at the base, tapering to 4 cup, the whole of the brickwork is built in lime stituted by His Majesty the King a few yearing, at the following gentlemen were in the inoles in liameter at the top. They are set six mortar of peenliar composition, as is also the

1 believe I am age is not a choup distinction.

̧car :--Mr. H. Hackwood. Resident Engineer of feet in the ground in a solid block of comerate, | brickwork of the buildings Instead of employ- Within the city, ormaron (al base east ingagrently ing sand, as is usual in the mixing of limo marlar, local earth of a red colour, dermed correet in saying that Mr. Charles Ford, who for

add to the appearance of the poles, which are locally" rod earth, was mixed with the line, and more than thirty years was the Superintendent the Hongkong Teammys Electric Co.; Mr. J. of the Bota sical and Afforestation Department Grace Scott, General Manager: Mr. C. A.

Tomes (Messrs, Shewan, Tours & Co.), Mossrs.till further enhanced by fheaddition of wrought | water added to bring the whole to the right consistency for mortar, with which the bricks iron scrolls on the bracket arnis. of the Government in this Colony, is but the

Emerson and Windsor (of Messrs.

The trolley wire is divided into half mile were laid. As the work was being carried out by English engineers there naturally existed. and Civil Servant of the Crown in the Far

Dick, Kerr & Co., of Lonilon. the contrac- Od nisa the honum. It was

toms): Mr. F. Grakom (the cabin contractions y means of action insulators, and at great prejudice in departing from the botten 1871 that Mr. Ford came to Hongkong, and the

tor), Mr. Chan A Ting focal contractor), each of these points the main fender cables are path and this method of procedure was not Adopted until exhaustivo testé had been mado all change general aspect of the island is the

Me: Fang Wa Chun, and few other gentlemen. tapped and current is taken to supply esel of which proved that line mortar mile with red FOR avomment of his labours. Hongkong when it Leaving the shen the car ran smoothly section of trolley wire, this is accomplished by earth gare far better results than that weale ru noing the feeders through a foeder pillar with, sami, conclusively proving what the local was ended to the British Crown was described down Sharp Street, and along Wong-nei-citong as presenting an apparanes of absolute sterility. Read as far as tin Grand Stand. The sents were containing the necessary switches and fuses; architects had known for years. In the mixing ed for sand. The explanation of this appears though when one yours later trained botanista

tinn reversed and a ww was taken to the Praya the connections from the feeder pillars to the of lime concrete the red earth was also substitut- came to explore the island they surprised by way of Morrison Hill Road. On arriving at trolley wires being made with rubber eqvoved to be that the line is either thoroughly burns residents with the statement that there are few

the Police Station, wear Ah King's slipway, 37-16 cables carried up inside the pols and or properly laked; if it worn possible to potain no ills of equal area on the whole

ones more the trolley was shifted from ane wire along the sides of the bracket arms. The presin Hongkong time of the English standard of

A light-quality there is no donit that the praction of left Singapore en Friday, the 1st July, at 11 am.. so varied and

sure on the trolley wire is 500 volts. surface of the globe with

to the other and the car ran back to the shine.

lies out. The red earth consists of granite a July. at 5 p.m. extensive a flom." But of trees there wors

very advanced state of decomposition. The kill." it was writton, extremely for.

are envered with a mantle of grass amidst which rise the bars, Blackened rocks; while the monotonous stone seas only varied by a few bushes, or a sulilary tree staddol hore and there, and by the scattered graves of the Pinus siensis clothing some of the declivities." Mr. Ford when he rame inmediately set to wark to clothe the barren ruck with yorduro.

DM JOHANNSEN

SHIPPING NOTES.

STEAMER MOVEMENTY.

The I.G.M. steamer Prinz Regent Luitpoli

Tho experiment was considered very satisfa tory, ning arroster is providal in each feedar using red earth imelenil of sand would speed ly and may be expected hers on Tansdag, the 5th i

as the car took all the curves very well, being slowed down, of course, on approaching then, She ran at a lively pace along straight parts of the track, going at least three times fuster thau the best ricksha-puller. At the curves the trolley

tendency to slip Mbowed of the wire at the joints, but this will not Not our when the trolleys are adjusted. the least noteworthy fasture of the run was the

and

also

pillar

telophone giving dirent communication with the power kouse.

The feeder cables were supplied by the Callenders Cable and Construction Company and laid on the solid system. In addition to the main feeders running east and wost from the power station a return 37,13 booster feeder has been laid in each direction to within a mile of the two distant termini, where it is connected

The roof,

The car shed, which is a rectangular building 200 feet in length, contains six lines of track and giver sesonanodation for ears. is of iron, in twe spans partly glazed and provid ed with louvres, giving plenty of light and ventilation. Inspection pits run the whol length of the shed.

Twenty-six single deck motor cars are pre videt, fon being of the combined type with an enclosed portion in the centre and an open plat cars being reserved for first class passengers. bench typo, commonly known as toast racks. and aro for the conveyance of second class par

form, provided with seats, at other end, these

The C.FR. steamer Empress of India left Yokohama for Vauemree (B.C.) on Friday, Ist Jay, pm.

Tho C. & M. Roamer Babi loft Manila on Saturday, the 2ad July, at 11 a.m., and is dus heio to-lay, at 130 p.m.

WEATHER AT SEA.

The Tenn. from Manila, reports moderate 8.ly winds, moderate sen, cloudy and duil with

showers.

The Ash mogul, from the Cape. reports strong

B.1 winds in the Indian con

Nearly three thousand trees were plantod blank astonishment of the numbers of gaping as the trees grew well the work has through Chinese spectators, and the dejected look of rails at each feeder pillar. A threo core pilot The remaining 1 cars are of the open crust moderate monsoon.

during his first year in Hongkong, and

many years been continued until we buse to-day the appeurs uce of being the most charming well as the most prosperous island in the

Far East.

the ricksha pullare.

The car in question was No. 16." It almost nude. ore imagine himself in the Tuppeny Tube" to read the fumi-lar notices saying No smoking allowed and Please do not spit in the car."

When the car start running, which they.

before the 1st prox. ought to do on ar

the first fow traffic of

weeks is the

abnormal, for everybody will want to experience the sensation of When the work a ride on the electric cat.

bo

The oror all length of the cars is 29ft. thes total width is 63 feet 6 inches, and the wheel base The first class cars have a seating capacity for 32 passengers and the second class cars for 48 passengers. Each is mounted on a Brill 21 E truck, fitted with two four polo series wound single reduction ironclad motors of 23 horse- power ouch. The ears are driven from either end, each end being fitted with a series parallel

controllor.

to the rails, it also makes connection with the wire has also boca" laid from the power station > each terminus, one core being connected ap for testing purposes and the remaining two cores

The generating station is as nearly as possi-is 6 feet 6 inches.. being used for telephone survier, ble in the centre of the system, a convenient site having been obtained alongside the Bowrington Canal, from which water for rondensing purposes is obtained and which enables coal and materials to be deliveved by barges direct at the site. The only objection which could be found with the site lay in the fact that a very low foundation 2ርት consequently

good years ago it was reclaimed from the sea be obtained for either buildings However. BA i: WIR machinery. the best site obtainable in all other resports this difficulty had to be overcome, and efficient foundations, were obtained by the driving of over five thousand piles. These were spaced so as to support the whole weight of the buildings themselves, the ground, which greatly varied in solidity, being left as an additional factor of safety. China fir poles. 15 feet in length and 5 inches in diameter, were used for the traildings Hed it not been for obstructions by the Pablic Works Department the line would sud machinery, special 7 inch poles 18 fest in length being used for the chimney foundations. months age. have been completed some

The depot comprises engine-room and the raising The chief obstruction

basement, boiler-house, eprs-led and machine. It was

With regard to the correspondanes which has appeared during the past week in the Dey Preasre the exclusion of a certain section of the Chinese community from the Botanic Gar-ertain dens, I venture to express the opinion that the authorities have gone quite as far as the exigencies of the case warrant. The setting apart of the public gardens on certain days during he months of August. September and October. practically for the exclusive use of residents other than Chinese, is, to say the least of it, concession that, if carried to the extronics suggeded by some correspondents, would sit scadingly baril on the more respectable of our Chinese citizens, as well as constitute's serious contravention of the principles of freedom which are the backbone of our glorious British

constitution. What would be thought in London if the aristocracy demanded the exclusion of the labearing classes from Rotten Row or Kensing ton Gardens?

is finished the line will be taken over from Mr. Hackwood by Mr. Scott, the General Manager. There will be 26 cars running, and if an estimate of the earning capacity of the line much to put the be made it is not too

a total tigure at $50 a day per car, making of $1,300 a day. There will be cent 1st class fares for somas distances, the fare for the whole length of the island being 145 cents. The ticket-collectors, conductors, etc., se already been engaged. They were to be Saturday wouring

Keen at the car shed on

their numbered badges.

Wau

of the level of the road at Praya East

arad could

or

In addition to the hand brake in general use a very powerful emergency brake can be formed by short circuiting the motors on themselves and thus converting them inte generators. The trolleys, which are of the lateral type and provided with a swivel bead, ure 16 ft. 6 in. in length and enable the trolley The car bodies were built at Preston by the Electric Railway wire to be fixed tou feet away from the centre of the track where necessary. and Tramway Carriage Co. L. and wore were fitted together and connected ap in a very shipped to Hongkong in sections, where they short space of the.

At ona end of the

shed is Car

well equipped workshop containing screw eat ting gap lathe. wheel lathe, wheel preas and drilling machines, the whole being driven by & A suitable smithy, carpenters' shop, and paint shop are also provided,

500 volt motor.

s big job, and though the P.W.D. may have shop, smithy, paint-shop and carpenters -shop popular Municipal Electrical Engineer of the

That measures for presenting the improper * of our beautiful gardens by Chinese andesirables are necessary I am quite willing to adwit, but the economic conditions existing in Hongkong make it a matter of extreme diffealty for the powers that he to net - repressive measures that will have the desired effee, and yet not offend the susceptibilities of our immense nativa population, which, by the way, contribute a large part of the money necessary for the upkeep of the gardens. Apart from this, it is to ho presumed that the Chinese- as well as the European, has an eye for the fair and the beautiful, and no reasonable completed.

person will deny that the Chinese residents

worked oreditably it took a long time. The raising of the road level by two feet in this vicinity is a

part of the scheme whereby a large portion of the harbour aren lying between the pier jutting out in line with Arsenal Street and the west end of Causeway Bay is to he reclaimed. A later obstruction to the complation of the line was the uncovering of * drain at Arsonal Street, and this is practically the only place remaining where work is not yet In 1902 zn ordinance was passed by the

and also offices. The engine room, which is lofty and well lighted, contains twecontinuous current, direct connected railway genomtors of the multipolar type, compound wound, giving a potential of 550 volts, nad making 100 revolutions per minute. They are designed to run either separately or parallel. The gonera. fors are keyed direct on the main shaft of the engines, which are of the horizontal cross compound type, each engine being equal to a maximum lowl of 557 braka borse power. The engines, built by Yates and Thom, are each

of Hongkong are sadly in need of some Legislative Council of Hongkong authoris. provided with a Wheeler surface condenser of

their

The

the Admiralty pattern, and may be worked either condensing or non-condensing. condensed stem is conveyed to the hot well to be again used for boiler feed. The condensers are fixed in the basement below the engine room, as also are all the steata, exhaust. circulating and other pipes, thas leaving the engine rooms free and open. Circulating water for the Resident condensers is obtained from the Bowringu

th Canal which is alongside the site. water first passing through pumps fitted with gratings and strainors to exclude obstructions.

place where they may while away

ing the tramways to be laid down by the moments amid surroundings that

Company. space

Hongkong Tramways Electric appe 1 to their ideas of happiness-hance their

an English Company with its headquarters in apparently unwelcome invasion of ons of the London, and workwas commenced in May 1903. fairest of Hongkong's public institutions. The detailed plans, etc. were prepared by the fancy the only practicable solution of the Company's Consulting Engineers, Messrs dificulty lies in the proper policing of the gardens. Alfred Dickinson and Co. of Birmingham, who The Sikh policeman is admittedly an object of appointed Mr. Harold Hackwood to act as their

representative in Hongkong as services of a sufficient number of our dusky Engineer in charge of the construction. The contractors were Messrs Dirk Kerr and Co. way as to command a view of the entire gardens of Loudon, who carried out the whole of the would undoubtedly be the means of effecting work. the reform so ardently petitioned for by several correspondents,

drad to the unwasted coolie element, and the

representatives of the law stationed in such e

The total length of single track is 14 miles which is laid in miles of route. The track The footpath nuisances continue to be as had is laid to a gauge of 3 feet 6 inches, with rails of the girder type weighing 8lbs. per lineal aver in Hongkong, in spite of all the com

•phints that have been made of late. Coolies yard. Each rail joint is denble bouded with can still carry their bamboos and loads on the 60 S.W.G. copper bonds. side walks with impunity, and keep on their great umbrella-sized bats. In the early morn

ug fow Europeans are abroad, but those that do stir out hatines for a stroll or on business are liable to get struck by a leg of mutton or greasy pork or some such meat being carried from the markat. Meanwhile the Indian and Chinese constables look on calmly and do nething.

The lines within the City are laid for the most partus centre pole construction, but the eastern portion of the route being outside the City boundary, is laid as single line with pass ing places and is equipped on the side pole system.

With the exception of a short branch lius, which runs to the Race Course, the route ruus parallel with the water front and with the exception of a short length at Quarry Bay is practically level. At Quarry Bay a short length of road grading has been done, the original grade of 1 in 10 having been reduced to 1 in 15. Beyoud Quarry Bay is the eastern terminas of the line, where is situated the small Chinese village of Shoukiwau.

In addition to the two traction sets there are two smaller plants for are and incandescent lighting of the depot, one set being driven by a small high speed engine and the other by a motor running from the 500 volt sircuit. The lighting circuit is supplied at 100 volts pressure,

The management of the line is under the aute direction of Mr. J. Gray Scott, the late Croydon Corporation, which position he resigned to take up his duties in Hongkong As this is the pioneer system of electric traction in China it is to be hoped the venture will meet with a well deserved success and that electrically equipped lines will shortly be laid in other parts of the Celestial Empire.

Half the cars were tested on Saturday and yesterday, and the other half are to be tested

to-day.

POLICE COURT.

Saturday, 2nd July. BEFORE Mr. H. H. J. GOM PERTZ (ACTING

Porter MAGISTRATE)..

A EIT JOLLY.

A Portuguese residing at Bridges Street was Chinose constalde. The defendant said he was charged with drunkenness, and with striking very sorry he was a bit jolly at the time. Mr. Gompertz fined him $5.

ROUEN AND VAGABONDS.

.

Twelve Chinese were charged by L-Serg Hedge with being rogues and vagabonds. Complainant discovered them at 3.30 a.m. slum- ring under a verandali in Des Vinx Read Central. Their collective wealth was 3 venta They were intenced to four lays hard labour

each.

SAMHLING.

The Chashan. from Bangkok, raports

The Chinglu on her voyage from Japan to Hongkong experienced moderate winds and fine

wentlier.

The Opole had a fine passage from Singapore, The Dorie, From Shanghai, reports fresh to moderate S.-E.ly winds, confusnul Hen and heavy rain at times.

The Halching experienced fresh B.E. breezes, showers and ragh sex hotareen Foechow and Hongkong.

HAVING DANAL DUES.

Ships arriving here with coal from Barry Dock and Canli come out for the most part vit the Cups, thereby saving Suez Canal dus, The steamers that art and Dancara arrived here with coal from Barry yesterday, having come out by this route

SHARE REPORT.

Mexers. Erich Georg & Co., in their Weekly Share List dated Saturday, 2nd July, state:

Although most stocks have remained firm. some even showing some slight improvement in the week under review has not been large. The rates, the volume of business transactel during sterling demand rate on London is 1. 10d.. while the rates on Shanghai close at Tis. 711 for a TT, and Tix. 72 to Tls. 72 for a three days sight private draft. Barsilver is quoted lid., and Consols 2902.

London

BANK SHARRS-Hongkong and Shanghair havo again changed hands at $660, and close with toll buyers; the London rate is £67 108, Nationals are still wanted at $98.

SHARES.Unions

MARINE INSURANCE

are wanted at $545. Chion Tradors sold at 563 to S64. closing firm at latter rate. Other stocks ander this heading unchanged.

FIRE INSURANCE SHARES-Hongkongs Bold

at $310. and Chinas at $37, aut moro shurea can be placed.

SHIPPING SHARES.-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats remain on offer at 329%, and some time shares can be got at under the equivalent of this rate. Indo-Chinas sold at rates ranging between $119 and $117, and class rutes with sellors at $118; shares sold on time somewhat under the cash equivalent; the London rate is £10, while Shanghai quotes Tla. 85 nominal China and Manilas can be got at $25 and Douglases at $35. Star Ferries are in demand at $33 for old and 824; for new. shares. Shell Trausports have advanced from 21s. Od. to 254 61. buyers, with sellers at these and intermediate rates; London, grotes 258. Od. buyers.

REFINERIES-China; Sugars closed rather

place at $190, but the market has rallied again. easier lust. Saturday afternoon, and a sale took and sales have been effected up to $163, the merket closing with buyers at $184; sales at $185 for 31st August. $188 for 30th November. and $190 for 31st December, have also been reported. Luzon continne neglected

MINING SHARES-Punjoms, Ordinaries are aquotable, while Preferences are on offer to 4 cents: an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders will be held on 12th instant for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, pass- ing resolutions referring to the voluntary wind- Sergt. Kerr charged seren men with gaming up of the Company, appointing a liquidator, playing cards. The first defendant was fined to be called The North Puujem Mining Company. Limited." Cbarbenuages are quoted bling in a mat-hed at Tai Hing. They were and to trauster the assets to a new Company, $10 and the rest $5 each.

$500 Rauls sold at rates ranging between S6 and $74, closing with buyers at $7.

A VAGRANT.

BEFORE MR. J. H. KEEP (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

ROBBERY.

Inspector Withers charged an Italian with The switchboard, consisting of nine panels, inlaides à masin statira panel, two generator being a vagrant. The defendant admitted it panels, two feeder panels, one Board of Trade and was sent to the House of Detention. panel, and three lighting panels. The main station panel contains recording instruments of the latest pattern, the recording wattmeter showing the total output of the station. The Board of Trade panel is arranged for Three men were charged on remand with receiving test wires from different parts of the entering No. 30, Wing Lok Street, and stealing line and is provided with instruments for uak- thersfrom clothing, jewelry, etc., to the value ing all the tests required by the Board of Trade. of $277. They were sontencel to six months'

An overhead travelling crane is provided cap-imprisonment each. able of lifting and traversing in any direction a load of ten tons over this whole area of the engine room.

HITTING A BILLIARD MARKER.

A88AULT ON A FIG.

W. Nebubr. who a few days ago was fined $5 for riding 1st class with a 2nd class ties a Hongkong-Kowloon ferry bout was charged with assaulting a miliard marker at the Hongkong Hotel. He was fined $25.

P.-Sergt. Lander elarged a Chizamian with cruelty to a pig. Complainaat saw the man at Kennedy Town striking the animal with a bamboo. Defendant was fined $10 or 14 days

mprisonment.

OPIUM.

Docks, WHABYES, AND GODOWNS. -Hong. Kong and Wharapon Dock Company's Shares have improved, selling at 5914 to $216, and at latter rate shares can be placed. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's shares found buyers at $116 to $111 cash, also at $114 for 31st August, and there are cash buyers now at $112. Now Amoy Dock Blazek unchanged. Farnhams have been in goal demand, both for cash and time, and business is Tis. 161 for end of August, and Tis. 1611⁄2 to Tle. reported at Tk, 157 to Tls 158 cash, Tia. 160 to 162 for end of September, the cash rate closing| at Tik 158 buyers Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Shares are quoted in the north Tls. 1474 buyers.

A good story is told about a deep-sea fishing party that went out the other day from Hong

The boiler house. which is at a lower level on kong on a junk to a point beyout Stonealter's

than the engine room, contains two double drum, They belonged to the staff of Vic'oria Gaof. They

water tube boilers of the Babcock and Wilcox were way for the bostpart of a day, and returned

type, arranged to burn ordinary Japanes engine slack. Each boiler has 3,654 square foot with a splendid bayful of fish, which were pro

of heating surface, evaporates 12,000 lbs. of dneed in the mess-room and exhibited with anch

Owing to the varying nature of the groundwater per hour, and works at a pressure of 100 pride and bousting. Afterwards the fish were three forms of permanent way construction is, per square inch. In addition to the steam distributed, some going to the boys. One of have been adopted. Where the ground was solid and water gauges each boiler is fitted with a spring safety valve and a dead weight safety the boys on receiving his present thanked the the rails were bedded on a concrete beam 18 alve. Water is supplied to the boilers by two | A Chinaman was charged with unlawful! Shanghai Lants have buyers at T 115.

possession of 234 balls (17lbs) of raw opium donor profusely and ejaculated, “ Eo yah! No.1 inches wide and 6 inches deep, where the ground Blake and Knowles feed pamps which take

And on salmon." fish balong Canton

was not so good a bed of concrete 6 inches water from either the storage tank or the Ho was fine! 850g or three aunties' imprison-

in width hot well and feed the boilers through the ment. further examination. it furned out that the whole deop

7 feet 3 inches

and economiser. This, manufactured by Green of the whole track catol were fresh-water fish, presumably from oztending under

Wakefield, contains 288 pipes, and by utilis I foot the market!

6 inches

side on either

was ing the waste flue gases to raise the temp

the feed water, effects a great saving adopted; over doubtful ground which had beenture

in fuel. Not the least remarkable amongst Hongkong's recently roclaimed from the sou, this concrete

In case of mishap the coonomiser may be eut enriosities is a rather large tree growing on top od was increased to 8 inches in depth. The!

out of use, the flue gases being conveyed to the

and

AN UNLICENSED VENDOR.

For hawking fish in the Westara: Market z Chinamun was fined $40 or trs mouths' imprisonment.

DEWARE cf the party offering Imitations of Macniven & Cameron's l'ans

They come as a boon and a blessing to men,

HE

LANDS. HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong- keng Land Lavestment and Agency Company's!

Kowloon shares sold and have buyers at $158 Lands are quoted $37 buyers, and West Points 360 firm, while Hengkong Hotels are easier with sellers at $136, Humphrey's Estates sold at $12 und $4 for old and new shares re- spectively, and a few shares are on offer

COTTON MILES-Without sales and changed.

MISCELLANEDUS,~Green Talent Cements suld nt 8294 and 830, and base buyera at $295. China Borutus can be placed at $10. A few A. S. Watsons sold at $13, but more are wanted. | Old Electries are in demand at $14) and new ones at $8; the lith ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders will be held on 16th instant. transfer books closing from 2ud to 16th instant.

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NOTICES OF FIRMS

NOTICE.

.COKE AND TAR.

beg to notify the public that Messrs. HE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO. KUNG HING & CO.. 474, Des Voeux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS for the sale of the Company'e Coke and Ter, and that all orders should be sent to the said Agents direct.

GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretory Hongkong, Sth June, 1904.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

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Mhus This Day been appoiuled AGENT for the General Managers of the Company, and in that capacity will reside in Shanghai, with general charge of the Company's interests at Shanghai. Hankov, Tientsin and in North

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[1619 Hongkong, Ist July, 1904.

China.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

of a disused chimney in Wanghai. It is situated concrota used was mixed in the proportion of 6! chimney by means of a bye pass, or auxiliary The Pickwick, the Owl and the Waverley Pen." at EL China Light and Powers sold at $. and SECRETARY of the Company.

to 1, Fortland vernent of local manufacture and Buc. and the feed water being pumped direct

at the back of a Praya East coal godown Situated negr the corner of Percival Strest.

BANYAN.

exceptional good quality being used. After the rails and the bottom concrete were laid the

into the boilers without passing through the economiser tubes. Two feed water filters are

This Day been appointed ACTING Dairy Farms sold at $18. Tebraus have buyers MR. JOHN ARTH JR TARRANT has

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, China Providents at $91. Langkats have

General Managers. Sold at all Stationers.

Hongkong, 1st July, 1904, MacNIVES & CAMERON, LTD, Waverley Works dropped to T 295, at which rate, however.

Edinburgh.

(402-3 there are buyers.

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