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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

AUCTIONEER.

C. DE M. C. VIEIRA-RIBEIRO,

Auctioneer. Consignments solicited. Account Salou renderof and settlement effected promptly. No. Sa, Queen's Road

Central, Hongkong.

BOOKBINDING.

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.

TO LET

TO LETAT KOWLOON.

THE RÖNGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8Tx, 1996.

TO 3, LYEEMOON VILLAS, A Five.

Coari. Possession from 15th Novem or next

Apply to

"LYEEMOON,” Care of "Daily Press" OfĎA, Hongkong, 17th October, 1906. (1927

TO LET ON LEASE. FROM 1ST JANDABY, 1907.

The only offleo in China having Europesu NOS, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, HOLLYWOOD

taught workmen Equal to Home

work.

IRON MERCHANTS.

SINGON & CO.,

Iron,

aud Hardware Meini Steel,

Wholesale

Itali and Morabants.

Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Foundry. Cake Importers. General Stor

koagers and Commission. Agouts 33 & 37 Hing Loong Stat (lat Stront Want of Contral Market Talophone No.515

PHOTOGRAPHER

M. MUMEYA, JAPANEER ALTINT,

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring 'kotos and rolief Photos. Work Viown of China and Manila.

Jove for Amateurs; 1o. 8a, Que's

Boud Contral..

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Proofs read by Englishmen

TYPEWRITERS.

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First Roor).

B

NEW CARTRIDGES.

X Popular English. Manufacturers. In

all Bores and Sizes.

SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 9890. at $6, 57 and 87,50 per 100. SPORTING REQUISITES And AIR GUNS in Variotz.......

Inspection Incited.

WM. SCHMIDT & CO. [1924 Hongkong, 26th October, 1906,

SPORTING CARTRIDGES. '

STOCK of ELEY'S always on hood.

YICK CHEUNG, Gunsmith,

326, Queen's Road, Central, [19:1 Hongkong. 14th October, 1906.

AUTOMATIC MAUSER

PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.63 m.m..

With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS.

SIEMSSEN & CO.

Hongong. 3rd October, 1905

AVID CORSAK

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851

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LONG FLAX

RELIANCE CROWN

TARPAULING

45

& SON'S

CANVAS

ARNHOLI, KARBERO & CO.

Sale Agenti.

CO.

A. LING &

FURNITURE STORE.

PLATED GLASS AND CROCKERY

WARE, &c., &c.; and FOOCHOW

LACQUERED WARE.

ROAD. Now 1, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAI LANE, Apply to

¿

"DREADNOUGHT'S" TRIALS.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

tho

swam to him good that we should teniu all out Volunteers in a fashion that made us lamp together old, young, and middle-aged, Oight wa not to concentrate our attention on training Volunteers between the agos, vay, of 17 and 24 The Scoretary of the Admiralty states that

or 18 and 25, after which they could pa

into No Roomed House with joins use of Tennis the preliminary trials of the Dreadangst

the Baished with very satisfactory results. Her themselves efficient by training, and later into

Brat

roserro, in which by should keep mauearing power proved to be exceptionally the

nd the ease with which she was stored second reserves, following German ideas? There sad handles, even at low speeds, was very wore 36000 soldiers outside of the regular Arms

and warly two millions more betwee noticeable. The ship proyed hersel' a good sea baat, althong the weather was nei suficiently of 30 and to who bat: passed through the

Lauxiliary

servicu. He boliovo) that if there was navera to make this a very thorough tea.

Ife might There was a complete absence of vibration of suffisien valiocal enthusiasm

mistain in the field an army of from seven to the atracture at all speeds.

The preliminary trials having been carried nine hundred thousand must. He thought it a eut, he ship proceded on the first official Frut mistake that there should be jealousy on of the Yolautours towards the rifle part trial at oue-fifth full power in the the

clubs; they ought to work together. It's would English Channel. This was finished success like to say the clubs affiliated with the battalions.

and the next garies of trials at varios fully,

Crueluding, le submitted that it was at least powers with the ornising turbines was com menced. The ship now reports that these trials coneivable that every onaand should contain ore completed and satisfactory. Her seagoing within itself a large amount of ustrial on which the general could operate through bis has given entisfactionalike to the representatives of

exorte; working in conj

g in conjunction with volenter and the contrasting officers and putting a great mass of material the Admiralty

tha of the Land gine.rs,

for a thirty o

hours engines wering clear trial at 4000 hp. During

ring this furbinos

with worked

-kabl smoothness, and at the conclusion of thirty hours. The engineuring staff was

was directed

I to the ship through a run of twelve hans duration spoile With surprising celerity at varying the neersity horsepower was raised for a thres or raat vanteen knots, which was followed by three runs of three hours each at twelve, and ten kafe respectively. Tho engi es had been at work

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ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO.,

45, Wyndham Straat. Hongkong, 24th October, 1906, [1967

TO LET,

BROCKHURST," PRAK,

No. 3. CAMERON VILLAS. TRAK. Nos. & 7, DES VEUX VILLAS, PEAK. No. 2, CONDUIT ROAD,

No. 3, ARBETENOT ROAD. No. 73, WYNDHAM STREET. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fius Shops Offices and Dwelling Booms,

No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGregor).

Fue

No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Admiral Corner, who was in

Reous on Front l'art. Top Floor, (over Achɛe). BELILI03 TERRACE HOUSES,

Roms ROAD.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, 12028 Hongkong, 2nd November, 1906

TO LEE.

(ND FLOOR No. 12, Queen's Road Central.

Apply to

2ND

Engineer

for over forty-two hours, wher

i supreme charge of the steaming arrangements, This gave instructions for a full-power ru ested for thirty minutes. The maximum spod kuote, which is half a knot registered was 21.5

bove the speed designed and at least 2 knots more than any battleship afloat.

the mill in such a fashion sa to

work it through up to high point of training than we had hitherto known. While human nature rem stavl what it was, abs astions simultan ordy disurnied, our only security against war was oue prepare toess to safeguard our own interests.

JAPAN'S COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY.

REMARKABLE INCURAS: OF PROFIE.

the

at

Paior to the late was the next proft of tha Japanese attou spinuing mille aubuntel to an average of from ti to 9 py eut par gram. Sices 1. powever, the profit of spinstag companies has autimply incend During the first half of this year, eipsially. not a few companies mude dividends of 8 to We understand that the Admirsity will short-per cent. Below we give a table showing U

aggregate amount of law, capital, reserves. ly mod

out specifications for the sister ship to the Dreadnought, which is to be built in private the net profit of the spinning mills through at pard, one

of the three of this year's pregiamme, the country during the last four years: Nat

Paid-up R the two others having been allotted to Ports

It is s'atest mouth and Devonport Dookyards. 501

that only two firms will be invited to tender for the hull of

the vessel, these being Sir G. Armstrong. Whitworth, and Co., of Newcastle- en Tyce and Mare. Beardmore and Co. (Limited), of Glasgow. If the labour troubles on the Clyde should, however, show any tendency to develop unfavourably, it my be accepted as certain that no order will be placed there.

LEIGH & ORANGE, 1. Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 1st June, 1996.

TO LET.

IRANEE BUNGALOW, Kimberley

Read, Kowloon. Tennis Court attached

Apply to-

ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.,

45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong. 14th July, 1906.

[1414

TO LET.

NO. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD,

Apply to

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yasen Kaisha. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1905.

TO LET.

SOUTH,

FRO

PEAK,

MR. HALDANE AND THE TRAINING OF VOLUNTEERS. -

Mr. Haldane, Minister for War, in presenting the prizes to the members of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle, made an important speech..

The Minister for War: in the course of his крась, said more and more we were coming to see that the delenco of those parts of the couu. Try which might be vulnerable in event of hostilities was best taken gara c of by our volun- BISHOP'S LODGE

teer forges. He had always folt that the Partly Furnished or Unfurnished, with problem of national and Imperial chefouce was early possession. Close to Tram.

one of pocnilar inty

tricacy reason was that Apply to

the conditions under which we organised our DENNYS & BOWLEY.

Army were rapidly becoming changed. He Hongkong, 31st October, 1906." 12003 did not think it was possible for any War Minister to do more than maske a very limit- TO LET

ad contribution to the evolution of what we With Possession on the 1st January, 1907. nooded. He had always wished to make the

a non-party quastion. Thara was

1st half 1912 Zud hit 1942. 1st half 1903 Rudlanif 1903 lat hall 194 2nd half 1991

lat ball 19:5

2nd half 1905 1st half 1900

Capital serves. profit.

..

33,280

4.931 4877

3169

4,232

377

21655

1,671

32,901 5,122

1975

32,312

1,650

32,243

6.089

3853

34331 10,488

736

$1,000

5.692

7,076

In

NINE-ROOMED HOUSE with fan which the War Office was not of Y.-30. It is tras that during the fir

and Godown, on the British Concession. (Shamreen-Canton).

Apply to

"D.." "Care of Daily Press? Office, Canton, 3rd November, 1905.

2037

HONGKONG CLUB.

TO LET.

Hongkong, 28th May, 1906.

C. H. GRACE,

Secretary,

[1156

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N

(201

68, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong. 21st September, 1903

DR. M. H. CHAUN,

THE latest Method of the AMERICAN

TSYSTEM OF DENTISTLY.

37, Des Yeux ROAD CENTRAJ, From the University of Pennsytrauis, UNA

11874 flongkong, 4th September 19

I EN

TING.

SURGEON DENTIST.

No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free. Hongkong. si September, 1905

ON SALE

1759

DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG BOUND

WEEKLY PRESS, January to Juve

1906. With IsNx. Price $7,50,

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E, A. & C. F. DE CARVALHO,

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TO LET

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOON.

and that was in the numbers of its

advisers. A general staff order creating a general staff for the Army had just been issued. He thought too much had been made by the Press

ess of that order. It was no new conception. He was afraid the e original idea mast be labelled

Mare

Germany.

It was imported by the Hartington Commissies a good many years ago. It was endorsed by the Esher Committee, were foally embodied in an

and its

in

bo

pon

35,403 19,209 During the war the demand for cotton yarn was greatly increaset owing to the military requirements, thereby causing an extraordinary riseinthe price of yarn. Even after the cessation of the war the demand for yarm has not declined as the diminution for military purposes has been male ap by the dewind among, the amply generel public, who had refrained from buy- ing to any great extent while the war was in progress.

addition to

the this, raw notlou was exeedingly low pric, of

lat

year in inverse proportion to during

These the prevailing high price of garn. circumstances hace materially" contributed towards undully: swelling the profit of the spinning companies. 1901 the cost of raw cotton did not go balow Y47 per 100 kin, while the price of yarn fuoinated between Y110 and Y120 per bale. In 1905, however, the situation was reversed. Throughout the year raw cotton never rose much above Y30, while yara maintained its price in the neighbourhood

mouths of this year the cost of raw cotton rose to Y35 or thereabouts, but at the same time the price of cotton yarn has risen still higher, being generally quoted at above it. This may account for the remarkably large profit of the mills during the half year. Despite the great progre a of the spinning industry in Japan, the manufacturo of the yarn above 20 hands some not to have advanced to any great extent, as will Esses from the following figures:-

Othera Below 20 Abore 20-

ពួកទ hands.

hands. Total. Baler. Balee.

Bales, 296,159 145,793 33,732 223,249 139,583 377,121 243.433 140045 395,031 269,801 138,261 406,706 199.01 112274 30,019 245,317 118,499 374,093 987,606 149,526 472362 291,241 155,69! 473,174 290823 165,624 474,990

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1st half 1992. 2nd half 1992... Ist half 1993 2nd half 193 Is ha't 1991., 2nd half 194 1st half 1995...

half 1905.

at half 1008... - Japan Chronicle.

TWO ROOMS on the Ground Floor of the bie memorandum by Mr. Arnold-Forstur Anyone disposed to offer for the same please

Council bad worked it. Army

Be did not apply to

pretend that there were not some traces in it which owed their origin to recent la realigations on the other side of the German Ocean.

From Lis investigations of arman had coffe to the military institutions conslusion that our problem WES wholly O, 13, GAGE STREET, 8-Roomed House, different from the German problem, and that we

with a Godown.

could not bring Geruso institutions over here Apply to

and adopt them as though they were something that was a model for all times and circumstances Germany had to deal with great Powers on the cost and on the west, and frontiers not protected by any national defences. Her army had to be adapted to those conditions. We could aut, he continued, afford a professional army of very large dimensions, We meet baro our highly trained nucleus and an enormous reserve. Some nations effected that by com. pation. We did it in what we thought a more excellent way. A nation in arms was the only safeguard of the public interest should war PROMENADE break out. He should like to popularise that spirit; not the spirit of militarism. We hated militariam. But the obligation of national defence way to stand up for the hearths and homes of our poople and the interests of the Empire. Some of bit critics had said-Here is s man

who is simply reducing battalions or cutting down regulars. He could not make B stop forward

towards the establishment of a uni

a uliona! unless he got a clear conception of what hould be the proportion of the regular nucleus

Apply to

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MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st August, 1906,

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Water suitable for the storage of any NE GODOWN at East Point closs to the

Cargo.

Floor Area 6,100 square feet.

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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 16th October, 1906.

TO LET.

(1999

(EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART).

Ou ale at the Hongkong Daily Prea Ofice 66 THE ACACIAS" and "THE

Hongkong 27th July, 1906

For Nervous

Exhaustion

CHAPOTEAUT'S

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OF LIME

wur

to the national Army lying behind it. Our

problem was s..problem of expansion on purely

British lines. He would have to

to organise the business sid+ of the

Army.

That problem was bim

more at the moment than even Publie the question of the general staff.

"T"!

GROVE, having 26 Roums, with interesting

detached Out-Houses and Kitchens, situated

in Robinson Road, Kowloon.

Well ventilated, with Electrin Lights zud Bella completely installed.

Apply to

E. M. HAZELAND, No. 35, Queen's Road Central, or to WING-ON, Contractor,

No. 34. D'Aguilar Strost..

(1436

Hongkong, 19th July, 1906,

TO LET

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

GRAND

CONCERT.

TO BE GIVEN IN THE KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB ENCLO- SURE, Austin Road, Kowloon,

On SATURDAY, 10th NovemаRE, AT 9 P.M.

Admission 81. Tickets to be obtained from MEMBERS or at the GATES.

BEST LOCAL TALENT SECURED. Hongkong, 6th November, 1906, [2050

ever recent disclosures had given on AL FRESCO FETE

shed from command and training.

of dealing with the business side

of

Another thing to be learned from Continental armies was the enormous advantage decentralisation.

As to our

Voinuleer forces, he had always thought that foreign nations paid heavily for an old saying their compulsion. It was that we in this country muddled through always did act come always, but that about by accident. Our self-reliance pulled

throngb.

German A very eminent URBAR HOUSE" in CAMERON | coldíor had tok him that for small DREAD, Kowloon Moderate Rental.

and oversea wars our habit of self: ware Apply to

Profianes made our troops and armies the most SPANISH PROCURATION. formidable in the world. We mest never forget Hongkong, 10h October, 1906.

that our Army and our Navy could never bo dissociated, and that we must proceed on the assumption that we have command of the sea. Our Buxiliary forces had sprung up haphazard. OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and Yota If he might be allowed to think and answer

without it being supposed that his thoughts had reached finality on the subject, it did nor

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A HOUSE in Clifton Gabuene, Conduit Road

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MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1906.

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Compound of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, On SUNDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, 1906, from 9., toll г.M.

ADMISSION TICKET: $1, which is entitled to a Souvenir un its presentation at the Souvenir Pavilion on the evening of the Fele

he public is respectfully invited to inspect the various stalls from 2 to 7 P.M. on the 11th November, during which time Machado's String. Bond will be in attendance.

Toa and cakes will be served during "Chs | afternooo.

By kind permission of Lieut. Col. G. FITTO and Officers of the Band of the Second Battalion The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regiment) will play from 9 to 11 P.M.

TICKETS can be obtained from To DAY, HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Creme Charmant, Lait at Messrs. GRACA-&-Go Hongkong Hotel Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre Stall, and at the Rusan Catholic Cathedral Hor Compound on SUNDAY, the 11th November, Charmant will enable you to do it.

from 9AM to 7 P.M. and at the gate on the Specialities for the Skin aro the study of a lifetime. A.S. Watsen & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, night of the fèje.

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hare now 40,000 Cubia Fest of Cokl Storage available at East PONT, Stores will The Opan at 10) 4.m. and 4 p.m. dally, Sunday excepted to receive and deliver perishable goods.

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