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INSURANCES

TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-

TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST Dmozkaz, 1905

1.

£17.897,119.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... 2,750,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL .................... 11. FIES FUNDS... 3,388,720 19

657,500

0 8

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates."

SHEWAN, TOMES

Agenus

Hongkong, 11th July, 1966.

&

CO.,

1349

THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed THE

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

CARLOWITZ & Co.

Hongkong, 13th Augist, 1996.

AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-

SURANCE CO.

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.

TO LET

TO LET.

TO LET.

[97

16 CUMMER HOUSE" Mount Kellett,

SPEAK.

Furnished. Partially Possession from 1st April, 1997. Low Heat.

Apply to

PERCY SMITH & SETH.

5. Queen's Road Central,

530 Hongkong, 8th March, 1907.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11rs, 1907.

·AUSTRALIAN TRÓN.

SOCIALISTS AND THEIR CREED.

The successful establishment of the iron A group of Socialist philosophers, including manufacturing industry in their midst has Mr. Keir Hardie, Mr. Philip Snowden, and others who pant after the raputation of Kar) TO. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shameen, long been the cherished desire of the Austra

Cantou.

lian people, and its realisation has been brought Marx and M. Jaurés, are issuing a sort of within measurable distance by the contract expanded ereed of Socialism for England. Thoir Apply to

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT entered into by the Exabank Iron Works arguments are chiefly questions. If the State

& AGENCY CO., LD.

near Ligow, with the New South Wales manages the Post hee why should the Government for the supply of all steel and iron municipality nos become both wholesale and "Hongkong, 1st April, 1907.

required for State purposes during the next tail trader, je brand, furniture, or any other seven years. Although thers are extensive department of trade? Das reason is that the world and its society are already created. of great riebnos-of trou -deposits-frequently

is, i_q4rse, open to anybody to distributed throughout the Commonwealth,

that he was not

not consulted when the use of the ital was paknews to the regre aborigine, who were content with tools and im. protoplasm first developed, when law and institutions emerged, but a philosopher should, fashioned from wood or stones. The plements

at least, be able see that the absence of his existence of iron ores of various kinds wag 26. certained in the early days of the mother Stat valuable advice at the gareral crises in huvu

far bat nothing was done

the way mayyars in

progress is a fuct which there is no altering. the deposits have of utilisin

To interfere with the organisma would be as coalsining 51310mad and duly a trick as Medea's slicing up of toas of e. The chief deposits are at Carensr, the old man and patting him into a cauldron where they are estimated to contain 3,10 with a view to restoring his youth. But it is tons, and at Cadia, where the quantity is st something, to know on their own reason! down at 400 tons; the ores in the former assertion, that the English school of Socialsts locality contained rather a high procentage of deliberately intend to prolong the nation's

in this way. They phosphorus, while at Cadia the product is li

to make each impregnated with sulphur and copper. At kill trade; the mean present the only works in the Commonwealth wunicipality a Trust, all affliated to the for manufacture of iron from the or are giant Trust of the State, Too individual situated at Fiskbank, bear Lithgow, in New energy interest. ambition, which have made

Waler,

silicoons where rad

ores the nation, as they make the salt of life, are Town abhorrent to them, as are personal charity and brown cent.. per

TO LET ON LEASE. FROM LUT JANUARY, 1907.

08. €, 8, 10, 12 and 14, HOLLYWOOD

6,81

Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAI LANE, Apply to

ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO.,

4, Wyadham Street.

[101 Hongkong, 24th October, 1906.

ΤΟ ΣΕΤ.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. TELLBURN, No. St the PBAK.

Apply to

HE Undersigned, having been appointed W THE the above Company, are prevared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE

Current Rater.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO..

Agani Hongkong. 21st April, 1897.

114

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

York Buildings

954 Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907

TO LET

of

THE NETHERLANDS LLOYD

AMSTERDAM & BATAVIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.) THE Vadersigned AGENTS for the above

TO AGENTS Lesers

RISKS at current rates.

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 1st January, 1907.

TO LET

TO LET-FURNISHED.

120

EWKNOR, No. 116, PEAK. the

this date to end September.

Apply

GILMAN & CO. Hongkong, 10th April, 1807.

TO LET.

NO. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD,

Apply (c-

300

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yusen Knisha.

Hongkong, Sed June, 1975.

TO LET.

(97

TO 8 GRANVILLE AVENUE, Kow.

NO LON

No. 1. EAST AVENUE, Kowloon,

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LD.,

Hongkong, 21st idarch, 1907;

TO LET.

676

POSSERNION FROM ler APEIL KEST, Semi-stuche HOUSES, Nos. 1B and BC, MACDONNELL ROAD, Esch with Roos, Bath-Rooms, Kitehen. Servants' Quarter and úrass Tennis Court.

Apply to-

CHUNG CHINAM,

Yan On Marine & Fire lueurance Co, Ltd. Hongkong, 1st March, 1997,

TU LET.

482

TO. 6, AUSTIN AVENUE, KOWLOON.

NPAIN ANY OF

Apply

COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, E. D. Sassnou & Co., Hengkong, 19th March, 1907.

TO LET.

500

FFICES in KINO'S BUILDING and YORK

OF

BUILDING.

A HOUSE in WONG NET CUONG ROAD,

GODOWNS is PRATA EAST.

Fatficially av

+22

South averaging bematite yielding bu

have

لحجيرا

&

been successfullt, m-tallic iran, sad naforesi kindasw to asighbours, Dir

are

trated. Abundance ing a world in which no one shall be any. of coal and limestone is found in the neigbour body, they would obtain one in which every hood. Eecently considerable quantities of one would be nobody. These landars of an openly proclaimed as iron ore have been raised from the deposits Socialism situuted in the Maralan, Pictor, and Carcoar revoluffusaries. They can only begin their districts, and dispatched to the smelting workes campaign with theft, they wand ond it in At Dapto and Cackle Creek, where they have national bankruptes -Glob been used as flux, the gold contents of the ora of railway briping to defray the extre coul

20120

FROM 1ST MARCH, 1907, [O. 3 CARNAVON VILLAS, and No. 6, earring. The total raised in 1903 was

LOCHIEL TERRACE, Kowloon, Apply to- HEWAN & Co.,

No. 15. Connaught Road, West. Hongkong. 1st February, 1907.

TO LET.

324

LENWOOD CAFES B Club. Con-

a or taining 26 Rooms.

This property would be divided into two or more honger to suit tests.

RANGOUR PRAX

"CLOVELLY, ` Teak Road Partially Furnished

BUNGALOW at Brezy Poins with Teanie

Court.

BUNGALOW (furnished) at New Territory, Kowiona, 4 Rooms, Low Rental,

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shops Offices and Dwelling Koons.

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

TERRACE BELILIOS

HOUSES, ROBINSON ROAD. Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building • Bengkong. 22nd March, 1917.

TO LET,

1102

ROAD CEN

RAND CHINESE.

women have

toca, valued at £15831 and up to the sad of

Mr. Jamieson's annual report as superinted- that year 1478 tous, valued at 219.422 have been obtained. A cpu-dersbis quantity of dent of Chinese labour in the Trastaa! has

Eኁ 11 4 He points to

F iron oxide is also raised onch year and used for been issad. Aux, white tinere is also an export, usually of difficulties of administration, and stiles that small dimensions, but alocoting in 1 to where the men in charge of compounds Ara 1,1 tous, valued at £1.181. In nessland blin corrapt the mine usangers are helpless, being and quer islands between Rookhampton and except this

occur in the Northumberland! unable to communicate with the labourers In such cireum- other

chance of Bower, at Yount Lnez in the Herberton stances & coolie would have no district, at the Iron Mountain in the Ksagoron presecting a grievanes Hills, and at Mount Leviathan in the Cloncurry average number of labourers employed district. During 1998, 9,908 tous

valued in the year which ended List June was $7.7 at £3,952, were raised, chiefly in the Harberton and there were 13, 332 envictions for faxes. district, for use as a flux in smsiting. Large As a while, Mr. Jamieson gards the Chinese deposits are found in South Australia, the most as Jawabiding No attacks on important being those at the Iron Knob and can been proved, but the coolie cannot b-seguit Iron Monarch Mines, situated about 4 milested of deliberate murder of his fellow-countrymen west port Augusta. The ore contents of the often is aggravated circumstances of crusty. Iron Monarch are estimated to be 20.000 000 | The great predisposing case of all Chiness tons. In 1903, 53,350 tons were obtained from crime ou the mines. Mr. Jamieson says, is Lbs deposite at Iron Knob and used in the gambling, with its resaltant dab, supplemen

od to a lesser degras by illicit traße in opium. Broken Hill Proprietary Company's reduction works at Port Pirie, I. Tasmania, not- He expresses regret that the conduct of many with landing the huga deposit of iron ora white on in the Transvaal is lowering the at the Blythe River, the production has Chinom opinion of the white man's integrity. not been

in 1903 only 9,32) great, and

raised, the tons, valued at £3,309, were

was shipped tr greater portion of which New South Wales for flaxing purposes. During the deposit was tested by tunnelling, and estimated to contain 17,000,000 tons ore. It was proposed to ship the nee to Sydney, and amelt it somewhere on the seaboard but the cont

ntract with the Eskbank Works to manufac tare steel and iron prino pally from local ores has prevented the realisation of the project. The deposits in Western Australia are widely distributed, the most important being these in the watershed of

NO CONNAUGHT205 and Gourr. found to maintain its 812-4 and quality, and it is

Apply on the Premises. Hougtong. 20th March, 1967.

TO LET.

610

DUNHEVES". Robinson Road, or

FOR

No. 27 and 31, SEYMOUR ROAD. 4 Now Houses in KENNEDY ROAD,

Wan Chai

No 90 & 91 GODOWN PRAYA EAST.

Apply to

SAM WANG CO., LTD.,

SL Queen's Road Contral. [103 Hongkong, 13th November, 1906,

TO LET.

FOUR-ROUMED HOUSES at Pray

East, near Point. Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. [137 Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907.

TO LET.

HOUSE KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOON.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. 192 Hongkong, 1st April, 1907.

TO LET

ND FLOOR of No. 6, IGE HOUSE STREET; Centrally situated and within sy reach of the principal Banks and business houses Apply on the premises to

TATA & CO. 105 Hongkong, 24th December, 1906.,

TO LET

of

the Marebaion River; but, owing to their geographical posi tion, they aro, at present, practically valueless; the only iron raised being for smelting purposes, the profue ion in 1983 being 220 tons. value £83. The various engineering, galvanised-icon works, tron works, and foundries in the Common. wealth in 190 employed a total of 16.636 bards. This does not include those in other establish- ments in which metal industrise are carried As showing the possibilities of last isamaa facturing industry, it may be mentioned that during 1993 the import irer & deal into the Commonwealth amounted to 3,087 917 cat valued at £1,434,000,

cu.

A MUCH TALKED OF LOAN.

The Westminster Gazette of March th says:

The prospectus of the Japanse Loan. of which we were able to give some particulars in our later editions of yesterday, is mnes on the lines suticipated. The total of this Loan is 23 millions in 5 per cents at the issue price of 904 Half the amount is offered in London and the other half in Paris As is pretty well known, the proceeds of the issue are to be applied to the redemption of the Six per Cent. Sterling Loans issued in London and New York, amount ing together to millions, The principal of the new Loan is repayable at par in 1917, but the Japanese Goverment reserves the right to. redeem after March 1922 en giving six months'

A HOUSE in CLIFTOS GARDENS, Conduit IN ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS Swall notice, Instalments are spread over the next

Road.

FLATS in MoRSTON TERRACE.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1967.

TO LET.

191

TO, 6, LYEEMOON VILLAS, Kowloon, Possession from 1st March next, Fire Rent $125 per Rooms and Tennis Court. -mouth including taxes.

LYEEMOON" Appy to

Care of Daily Press Office Hongkong, 21st January, 1997.

TO LET.

N Immediate leases

241

Office on Second Floor.

Apply→

SECRETARY, A. S. Watson & Co, Ld. Hongkong, 4th Januáry, 1907.

OFFICE TO LET.

five months, but cash payments in full may bo made on allotment under discount at the rate of

cent per sunum. With regard to the existing six per cent bondholders, a special form of [150

application is provided, under which the application wouey will have to be paid as in the case of new subscriptions, but payment there. after can be made by exchanging the old bonda for the new.

NE ROOM in PRINCE'S BUILDINGS from

Oat Fobruats. Rent $50 per month.

Apply

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co., Prince's Buildings, " Hongkong. 29th January, 1907.

TO LET,

299

9-ROOM HOUSE, 15, MCDONNELL.

ROAD. Commanding Good View Harbour, with flue Tennis Law.

Apply to-

of

DE HO KAT,

SA. Des Veur Road.

Hongkong, 5th April, 1907.

718

235

TO LET.

TO: 3, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.

THE COMPRADORE, Apply 13-

Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Hongkong, 4th February, 1997.

TO LET.

INMEDIATE POSSESSION.

HOLLYWOOD ROAD, and No.

51, POTTINGER STREET.

TO.

Apply to-

ARRATOON V. APOAE & Co,

43, Wyndham Streat.

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.

TO LET.

491

OND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL. GREENCROFT,

GARDEN ROAD, Kowloon, Redecorated, Electric Light, Tennis Court.

FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon,

from March 1st.

Apply to-

LEIGH. & ORANGE,

1. Dea Voux Bond.

94

Hongkong, 19th February, 1907.

The immediate effect of the issue of the Japanese prospectus was to cause a fall of in the price of the six per cent. Loan, which

Just the new bonds are intended to repay. before the prospecias appeared, Japanese Sires of the First and Second Series were standing at 1932, from which they promptly fell to 103. Of course, these old bande are now practically

Coupons of 3

per cent, each short-dated bills. are due on April 5 and October 5, and the Iran is repayable at pari, £100. Therefore the man who pays 103 for the bonds on March 14. the next account day, will receive altogether £10 14 by the time the issue is paid off on October 5, the 5s, being allowed for meome-tax on the 6 coupone. The bonds have 205

4. OBSERVATORY VILLAS, days to run, and when everything is taken into

Tennis Court etc.

N° Kowloon Five Rooms; Electric Light; acconat tre gield upon the work ont to about

Apply to

ARRATOON V. APCAR & 00, 45. Wyndham Street,

700 1907. Hongkong, 3rd April.

TO LET.

RTO. 1 and 5.ORMSEY TERRACE,

Grabrille Road, Bowloors

Moderate Rentals.

Apply to

SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong, 4th March, 1907,

No.

TO LET.

TO. 24, WYNDHAM STREET.

Apply to--

504

E. A. & C. F. DE CARVALHO, 14, Arbuthnot Road. Hongkong. 28th February, 1907.

471

15 per cent, ob the money investedi.

& great rush for prospectuses There has been a of the New Japanese Leon, but the premium on the price of icens is only quite fractional. and there is much difference of opinion as to whether the applications will be ca anything like so large a coals as has been the case with previous issmas There has recently been on appreciable decline in the price of existing Japanege Loans, but still the quotations ard well above the prics at which they were, issued, with the exception of the Four per costs of 1905, which were issued at M, and now sland at about 84 For example, the Sixes are only a trifis over 103, to compare with the price of issue of 931, while the scand series, which stand at the same price were offered at 904. Then, again, the two series of four and a half per cents., raised in 1903 at the price of 90, are now about 841. It will be noted that the urrissued balance of the

I four per cent. Loan has been cancelled,

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