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INSURANCES

AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. SURANCE CO.

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.

TEN for the above Company, are THE Undersigned, having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Raten.

REUTER, UROCKELMANN & CO.,

Agente,

113 Hongkong, 21st April, 1897

L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED

THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to accept Risks against Fire at current

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong. 1st January, 1904.

ratoe.

JANES"

LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE CO,

HAMBURG. ESTABLISHED 1848,

ASETS PER 31ST DECEMBER, 1904, Mke. 53,100,030-rqual to £2,600,000.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9ra 196.

STRICTURE AND KIDNEY DISÈASE.

How BEER AFFECTED THE KIDNEYS, Carol 2 Yours Ago-Still Well To-log.

54, Brighton Paco, Hampton Square,

Sheen Lane, Mortlake,

London, England. For nourly 19 years I suffered from stricture and kidney disease, and many a time kave I laid on the bedroom Boor writhing in agony. Twice I have been in hospital and undergone operations for the strictung. Never, ns long as I fire, shall I forget what I wont through, thon, Tho caths, yet I can truly say that, although two doctors said I could not live another thres years have passed since then, I was never botter in my life than i am to-day.

My illness came on in this way: One day at my work I strained my back, and afterwards I suffered from severe catting pains, ju over whore the kidneys are, especially when i stopped. I conid not sloep well at nights, and there were distressing urinary inorders. I was uniserable and out of sorts, and although the doctor did all he could for me, I got worse instead of better If I had a glass of beer it irritated my kidneys so much that had to keep to my bed for a week, but sines using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills I can enjoy my glass without feeling a bit

the worse for it.

It wasn't nutil I had finished the fourth box of Dean's Pills that they scepted to be doing me any good, but I persisted with the medicins. THE UNDERSIONED, Lring ban apaud with the fifth box there was a decidedly pointed GENERAL AGENTS of the freer action of the bladder. No other medicine above Compaay for Hongkong and Chins, are had ever tolped me at all, and you can imagine propared to accept LIFE and ANNUITY how delighted I was at this relief. For siz fasurancas, as well as to issu ACCIDENTmonths I continued with Doan's Backache Policies at the most liberal terms ever afford | Kidney Pills, and then I was entirely cured of

the East..

the stricture and kiduoy disoaso. From that SIEMSSEN & CO.

day to this there hasn't been any sign of the old liongkong, 1st January, 1906.

complaints returning.

ATORTH BRITISH AND NILE INSTRANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 14, £17,161,299,

I.

155

My suffering and my cure are well kauwu de MERCAN-andreds of mon I has worked with in London and I am sure that had I not used Donn's Backsele Kay Pills when I did, I should never have livet

(Signed) GEO. PRIEST. Down's Backache kidney Pilla are 2/9 a box, or 13/9 for 6 boxes. To be had of all chemists and nolicing-dealers, or direct from the proprietors, the Foster-McClellan Co., 8. Walls Street, Oxford Streat, London, England, post free on receipt of price.

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AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 BUKURIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000

687,500 0-0 PAID UP CAPITAL: Cesar

3,001,266 12 9 II. FIRE FUNDS.

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIILF at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Aponta. Hongkong, 30th June, 1908.

HONGKONG

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AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.

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PEKING SYNDICATE AGREE- MENTS.

Immediately after the joint petition against the Peking Syndicate agrement having boon presonted, five representatives were elected to have an interview with the Governor, and the following is given as the substance of their conversation.

which is held by Cammell, Laird, and Co. ¡ (Limited), Sheffield, and Johú Brown and Co. (Limited), Sheffold and Clydebank. The Shof. field firms make armour plates and guns as

and

well as heavy forgings for marine engineering. the amalgamation of the original frm of Charles Cammell and Co. with Mosses. Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, brought them into shipbuilling. The prosent combination gives Governor.--I have read over the petition you it in a similar position to other amalgamations, the allituen a footing on the Clydo, and places sont me, gentlemen. The agreement encore such as Vickers, Son, and Maxim, John Brown ing the Shansi mining interesta settled between and Co., and Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. the Commercial Burcan and the Peking Syndi cate is a great loss to the Shansi people.alliance with the Fairfield Company the take what is not agreal to in the stipulation. by which the Fairfield Company neqzire an Auyhow the Peking Syndicato cannot under fem will be able to turn out warships from the first stage to the last. The arrangemant Mornover, the Syndicate is working mines on interest in the Coventry Ordnance Works behalf of the Commercial Bureau, therefore (owned by Cammell, Laird, and Co. and John. the Sovereignty will certainly not be usurped Brown and Co.) is a consequence of the parti by the Syndicate. The cancellation of the giration by Cammell, Laird, und Co., is the agreement is at présent out of the Clyde business. tion, as the representative ot the Syndicate only cume to Shansi ouso, when he declared that he would serve the agroe mentIt will be time ough therefore for us to consider that matter when we have prod? that be has violated the agreement,

were

Governor. I would do my best in this mutter, even if, as I am, I were only one of the gentry of Chibli. Much more will I do so as the Governor of your provinco,

Representatives. We are indeed grateful for your kind intention.

Governor-Will you, gentlemen, ask the students to return to their schools, and I will endeavour to accomplish the matter as you have represented it.-Peking Times.

RAND CHINESE.

CHEAP LABOUR ESSENTIAL

the last soven or

paid.

The subject of Chinos inbour on the Rand Representatives. Two letters have been ro. pccupied an important part of the address of colved from the Peking Syndicate claiming the Lord Harris in presiding at the annual meeting solo right of working mines and demanding the of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, closing of the coal pits belonging to the people: Lord Harris, the chairman of the company. more points are added thau

in the in reviewing the general position, confessed stipulation. This is a proof of violation of the he was quite unable to account for the treat agreement. Moreover, if the Peking Syndiesto of pessimism that hand passord over the South has been invited to work the mine, that means African mining market during the Commercial Bursat has granted the Syndi eight months, uvan allowing for this effect of the cale special and specilled right. In privileges operations of a certain portion of the pross, which belonging to the people we beg it will be luul done its best to throw lunbt on the future of arranged to recover our rights through the the industry. He assured the shareholders that Governor's office,

the Board did not share in this pessizoiem, and Governor. The question of closing the coal whatever the reason for it was, a chango was pits belonging to the people has been dealt going to take place soon. Never in its

history with by the Waiwupu, but most probably the and the industry been in a sounder commercial Syndiente will say something further. More position than at the present moment, Ho over, most of the poor people in Shansi are thought that the public would recognise that living on the Mining Worke, and if the pits good dividends were going to be regularly are closed, it cuts off the people's livelihood; They were going to see a reduction, gradual I will certainly not grant that, you, gentlemen, possibly, in the working costs, and also im may rest quite assured.

provements in the economient management of Representatives-Siacetho Peking Syndicate the companies and the treatment of ore bodies. have obtained the Shansi mining, the darkness te believed that these factors would restore of Sbausi's future is really you description, confidence in the mines of the Rand as invest That is the reason why we, on behalf of the ments. It must be remerahered that they had students, some forward and plead in this cause. to pay 4,000 raw Chinese for work which was We are quanimously of the opinion that we absolutely strange to them. These economical would rather atruggle to the death than be improvements, in his opinion, were due to the slaves or animals of foreigners. But the canlance of cheap and officient labour. He cellation of agremont can only be effectedfelt that he must go into this question because through your influence.

of the imminence of a General Election, and because they had a certain party who were using Chiness about as a lever with which to raise objections to the Government which, and allowe the experiment to be tried, at the request of the Transvaal. It must be run in mind that the kines on the Rand wore low grade propositions, and economical labour was absolutely essential. Extra cost upon labour menus, millions of tons being rendered unpayable, whilst every shilling saved upon chour compelled the employment of more white m, because it made payable millions of tons of ore. Hu assured him that the native labour available on the Rand was quite inadequate to supply the demands A note dated Belfast, Nov. 27, says:-

for native labour upon farms, and for domestic Work in the local shipbuilding trada is row service, ven if not fairly brick, and orders at present in hand will employed in

a single native was the mines. keep the yards busy for some mouths to come. it and beeu proved that white men would Farthermore, Taking the industry as a whole, it is in a much not condescend to work side by side with more prosperous condition than was the case Kurs. Therefore, alien labour WT8

ear ago. There will be four launches during voidable, and it would he contrary to t the next five weeks, beginning with the Holt wishes of the Transvaal if Chinese labour was liner Bellerophon. Keels are laid down almost any way interfered with. as fast as there is a vacant ship, and among the next election resulted in the Liberals being Supposing the vesels now being built in the yards are the returned to power, there was one question be White Star liner. Adriatic, of 23,0.0 tons, which would like to ask them, and that was, whether Chinese until responsible Government had will be launched next fear; two Brocklebank they would try to stop the importation of stanners for the Belfast Steamship Coussy, been given? If they did so, the Transvaal Hamburg-American liner, a Holt liner, would have very just reason to complain. It two Pacific Steam Navigation Company boats, was quite true that this importation was only and two steamers for Elders and Fyffe's West an experiment at first, but there was not the Indian fruit trade. The work of extensive lightest shadow of doubt that it had been & repairs to vessels of largs tonnage is almost nil, snccessful experiment. It would be a breach of owing to the serious disaster to the Alexandra faith on the part of the Government, the ex- Graving Dock.

The Allen turbine liner pariment having been provel a success, not to Victorian, a comparatively new vessel, built at allow it to go on. the yards of Mesura. Workman, Clark, and were not satisfied, let them cause a Royal Com

If the anti-Chino party Co., Limited, and which sustained serious damage on the St. Lawrence, is now on the to be appointed to inquire into the If that was done, they would End Clyde for repairs, owing to the insufficiency of that to interfere with the importation of docking accommodation et Belfast, due to the Chinese would imperil the employment of accident to the Alexandra Dock. The loss of thousands of Englishmen in the Transvool. this work to Messrs. Workmang. Clark, asd It would be playing into the hands of the ex- Co. is gorions, as extensiva alterations will be trens Boer party, who were adopting the same made to the machinery of the Victorian in course of action as President Kruger had done, order to increase her speed. It is certain that namely, to cheek the expansion of the mines as the dock cannot be repaired inside twelve much as possible, because that meant presenting months, and this time may ultimately prove more white min being brought into the Coleay insufficient. The new dock in course of con-It would also be found that the Chinese were struction over this Alosandes Graving Dock, fifty per cent, more healthy than the Kafir boys which, it is believed, will be named the King from Portagues territory, and were quite as Edward, will not be realy until a later period. healthy as while man. If the importation of the loyalty of the South African Colonies to Chinase was interfered with it might juopardise Groat Britain.

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