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---Following are extraots from the Times-of-it hunched pader the favourable conditions India:
It is exactly five years since the late Mr. JamBatji N. Tate announsel to an interviewer In London his project of starting experimental iron works on a momewhat considerable scale in the Central Provinces. The occurrence of iron ore of excellent quality in the Chanda district bad long been known ir Richard Temple had NE FOUR ROOMED HOUSE at Prayamado reference to it in his first Administration
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report in 1861.62. Subsequently experts had Apply to
reported highly of the quality of the ore, one of JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. | them. Mr. Theodore Hughes, who visited the Hongkong, 24th June, 1907,
districts in 1873, having spoken of the Lohara ore As one of the wonders of the mineral world. The richness of the re was clear from the fact that it had been shown to contain about 67 to 70 par cent. of irou, the proportion in the | IBUoratory-proAtleed compounit hing uel more | than 72 per cent. There were four other deposits in the same district of equal richness, and so naturally the idea occurred an iron industry located in Chanda.
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DR. HO KAI, Barrister-at-Law,
Des Your Road. Hongkong, 28th September: 1907. 1560
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44TONHEVED" 35, Robinson Rusi,
No. 52, CAINE ROAD. Nos. 27, 29, 31 and 33, SEYMOUR ROAD.
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SAM WANG CO., LTD.,
81, Queen's Bond Central,"
·Hongkong, 2nd July, 1907.
(103
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KOWLOON, Apply to
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MENT AND AGENCY CO, LU. Hongkong, 1st October, 1907.
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HEWAN & CO.. Care of China Merchants S.. N. Co. Hingborg, la Oétaber, 1907. 1590
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Buit of 3 LARGE and ONE SMALL ROOMS with Bath Room attached, and Verandah all round, on the First Floar js College Chambers, No. 31, Wyndham Street, facing "Glenealy". Can have the use of a Kitchen, can be rented singly or the wholẻ,
GROUND FLOOR of No. 4, Des Voeux Road including a Strong Room and servalta' quarter
the industry. The chief oredit is due to the |late Mr. Jamseji N, Tats, but the' project her been bravely pareistad in by his sons, to whom it must be a matter of great satisfaction to see.
which are apparent to-day. To Mr. B. J. Padalah whose high intellectual powers were most effectively applied to the elucidation of several difficult problems connected with Cas project, and Mr. A. J. Billimoris, with his grilus for finance, the entire enterprise owes a good deal for its snséassful initiation, This, secount will not be complete without reference to the sympathetic attitute of the Gorerament of India, which has en- abled the promoters to give shaps to the scheme. Government has given vory practical proofs of its sympathy. It has sauctioned, the spasially reduced rate of freight of 1-15th pie per unund per mile, on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, on all materials and plant required for construction, and ou all raw materials to the works, und alsy to all finished products and bye-products dos patshed for shipment to Caidutta. They have further undertaken to purchase frota the Company, at import prices, 20,000 tons of steel rails annually. They bars Tho project, as it has fosily shaped itself, liss furthermore authorised the constraction by the entirely out of the Central Province, and the Bougai-Nagpur Railway of a broad ganga line, several stages through which it had to pass my equipped with specially designed waggons, be of interest to readers. In a modern iron which will place the far en in direst railway works, iron ore is at the one thing neexifal communication with the Mourbhanj ora beds, Equally important is the prosones at an easily.
a distance of about 60 miles. These are valuable Accessible incalty, of what
what is called good concessions, waich offer a material guarantes of "coal. The coals available at a work anacass to the wall-thought-out project now abied distance from the Chands depsits werefore the public. non-coking coals, but for some time the late Mr. Tala and his coadjutors rested their hopes of starting the industry on certain process said to be invented in Germany and Amaries for 'coking"
inferior With this object samples of all available coals were sent to these two countries for testing, and the late Mr. Tats himself left for Europe persually to follow up _the_tests. At the sams lime the_available. charccal-supply in the forests of the Central- Provinces was carefully examinat
Meanwhile, it was found that the Chauda deposits did not come up te expectations. They were suspected to exist is what. were were remnants of a page extensive accumulation of transition · bels extending, in numerous iu- stances, only to vary shallow depths. The total ore in the principal ore-bodies was estimated to be not more than one million and a half tons. But the Dhullee Hil in the Raipur district tgave good promise, as containing good ore in large quantity, capable of being cheaply mined, and of being approached through tat and fertile country. A thoroughly satisfactory |ord-boty of high-grade was proved up here, and bencaforth Dhulles was regarded as the centre of ore supply till the Guru-Mabishuui Hill in Mourbhanj was brought to the notics of the promoters.
The first meeting of the Tala Iron and Steel Company was held a month ago, and the final prospectus was passed. The subscription list closed on 14th September. All the ordinary stares, two hundred thousand in number, and 10,00 proference shares have been laken up. The blanca of 40.000 proference shares and 2,000 deferred shares was offered to the public;
CHINA, FRANCE, AND JAPAN.
Expert opinion, however, proved unfavour- A Japunes: correspondent learns on excellent able to the Central Provinces coals. The new authority, tant China considera herzelf.to be in processes were found to be in an experimental a measure aggrieved by the off siousness, as abe slage, and the omninent American authority, is prone to deem it, which Franos and Jopin Mr. Perio, strongly advised against wasting have exhibited in undertaking to gurantee the time or money uron poor costs and in favour of territorial integrity under given circumstances, going directly to those which are known to bare of the Chinese Empire. Explanations fail to so3- coking qualities It is best, a maid, to han! the rings the Chinese mind that the intention of tås. coke long distances rather than to attempt to two Powers is paraly to ensure respect on all sides operats with low grade fuels. Good coking coal, for the independence and integrity of the Colos- however, rare in India. Only three Bengal tial Empire, and Peking smarts under a sense of Belda were found to coutain coals that would impaired Sovereign rights arising from even the FIRST Class European Houses, Lochiel ooke, among them being the Jheria fold. Gas bare suggestion that Chine is not fully capable of the seams in this field was discorerad to cou-of-defending herself against all comers. Thik tain a very fine quality of coking steam coal, the having been China's conviction from lime quantity available being estimated stover one immemorial, she is the more likely to retain it thousand million tons. The fuel problem was tenaciously now that she is gradually becoming thus solved, but several other matters had to be the possessor of dried armies and a squadron investigated before the project bould be fiually of war vessels, despite the fact, moreover, that determined upon.
these are only in limited degree he | made." She is very much obliged to France and Japso, but does not wish to be regarded ss holden to these conntries for kid against aggression. To many this attitude on Chino's part will not be without a certain pathetic significance, as implying a tardy dater- minition to arm herself on a scale that it might be possible to regard as proportionate, in the way of defense, to her vast requirements. But those who best know Chinese ways are the least likely to be misled by an assumption on bor part of stern reaples to be ready in futurs for event- ualifier. It is perhaps a good sign that she is ready to resent, however, any intraction of what she may justly claim to be her Sovereign rights, and in this connection it is satisfactory to notothe anmistakable tendency shown in Tibet towards the enlightenment of the population. The arouse so frequently presented when Chins has been reprezened for the backward condition of her outlying possessions, viz. the terrible ignorance of the inhabitants, is becoming less often employed, and as the monthe roll ones likely to be acceptable Ion, for inactivity on the part- of the officials. It is believed that the development of Tibit is
reality a subject to which the attention of the Cantral, Gavernment at Peking is being directed, and many suggestions from these who have er joyed opportunities in the Occident of studying the possibilities of trained Chinese semice as factors in Far Eastern politics have from time to time undoubtedly been received at the military headquarters. Still the Chinese areas yet very far from being able to defend their country, and they mast by content to have its territorial integrity secured to them--by- intemational agreement among the Powsze most interested in the preservation of the Empire as it standa to day rather than by thuộc own prowess on the battlefield,
BOOMS on Second Floor of VICTORIA BUILDING, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, suit able for Offices.
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DAVID SASSOON & Cò. LTD. Hongkong, 24th May, 1907.
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LODOWNS Nos. 95, 96, 97 and 100, Prays AR, PA, 98, 90 and 10, PRATA ARGE AND SPACIOUS GODOWNS Enat. Apply to CHATER & MODY. EAST, formerly in the occupation of the
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HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT TO LET
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ANG YUEN 18A and 181, Macdonnell Road, two storied Houses with Bathrooms, kg, at moderate rontal.
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WING CHEONG CHAN,
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TAWO GODOWNS, No. 7, Wandbai Road,
and No. A, Praya Esat, at moderate. rental.
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WANCHAI GODOWN CO. Wing Cheong Chan, Agent.
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Hongkong, 2nd October, 1907.
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ODOWN, built of brick with tiled roof,
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The Jheria field for cosi and Dhullee for ore being fired, the location of a site for the works with reference to these two soureas of raw material had to be determined upon. Here the water supply was the controlling consideration. A modern plant of 500 to 600 tons daily capacity has been estimated to require sight million gallons of water per day. The Central 'ro vinces rivera ere wofully lacking in water. The only exception to this rule was the Mahanadi river, and its branches the Breath and Arpa in the eastern part of the provinces. On account of this belief and also in the hope of having | limestone quarried at Silveri, or at some nearer CHOPS and FLATS in Des Voeur Boat point, and as the result of the discussion of the various sources of supply of raw materials both within the Central Provinces and with No. 6, CAMERON TERRACE, Kowloon.bearing upon Central Provinces indus. try, with special refer-nes, to the most No. 14, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kowloon.advantageous point of sasembly for these materials and best site for a mannfrotaring No. 3, EAST TERRACE, Kowloon.
plant, it was concluded that a
sition on the P "Apply to
Seonatli river below its junction with the Arps. three miles east of Nipania on the Bengal. HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
Nagpur Railway, offered the greatest advant- FINANCE CO., LD,,|ages.. This site had, however, to be given up as
Hongkong, 15th July, 1907:
Central.
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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 2nd at 1215 p.m.-The barometer ba fallen considerably in N. Chias, and xíten slightly over 8. Formous and Luzon.
Pressure appears to be highest over China to bably low over Manchuria. the North of the Upper Yangtzo. It is pro-
The Japanese returns are lacking. this. morning..
..
Frash N.E. and E. winds are expected to
part of the Chias Boa
just thoroughly repaired, about 4000 and DwelUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Padempur was believed to be most favourably prevail in the Formosa Channel, and the N.
square foot spada, conerate doring. Sa table for storage of any kind of merchandise.
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MORRISON HILL.
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BERIL NO. 1, GARDEN BOAD
KOWLOON. Containing 8 Rooma and Garden. Possession let June, 1907,
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990
66 TATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD,
No. 1, RIPON TERRACE, BONHAM ROAD.
OFFICES in King's BUILDING and Yose BUILDING
GODOWNS in PRATA EAST,
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Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.18 inches.
water in the Beonath river proved to be over. estinated and the limestone to be found in the neighbourhood was of an inferior character. Padampar on the Mahanadi river, ten miles south from Jamga on the Bougal-Nagpur Rail- way, was then pitched upon as the most suitable site for the blast furnaces The only site out of the Central Provinces which offered points of BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Ofloss | rivalry to Padampur was Gisteils, Dalbhurn. on the Sabarnrecka river, in Bangal, but
situated in relation to the home market.
The mention of Chatsile as a probable alte, i brought to the notice of the promoters the rich iron ore deposita in Gurumaisbini Hill, in Mourbhanj State. A concession has been granted by the State, and the project as it has been finally adopted contemplates the working of these deposit: with Dhalles as a rezerve. But a rail- lige from Garamsishini to Ghatsils (95 miles) would lie through difficult country, hence the site of furnɛonu has been fixed at Siui, elling for about seventy miles of railway construction. South coast of Chins between The tonnage now in sight" in Garamaiahini. is said to be sufficient to furnish a quarter million tons annually for 80 years, and sa addi tional 30 years of life on the same terms in said to be practically assured. High-grade pig iron made at Sini with Mourbhanjores and Jheriacoke would be laid down in Calentia at a cost, includ
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FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 45, Wyndham Street. -Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.
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hardly equalled in the world, and made possible in this case only by the unusual juxtapos tion of raw materials. Imported pig is gold in Calcutta for from B. 50 to Rr. 60 a ton.
The plant proposed to be orasted at Sini will courist of two blast furnace, 75 foot high 8717
foot in the boshes. (Thore, with the raw materials available, will naob` produce from 375. to 200 or more tous daily. The misimum total output may be placed at 120,00.', and the maximum at 175,000 tons.) Four, fire of six 40-ton basic open-hearthsteel furnace, The minimum annual output of six furnaces would be 108,000 tons, and the pig consumption 197,000 tons. A blooming mill and a rail und beam mill, and three merchant bar mills, The total cost of plant and equipment' is estimated at one crore and four lakhs of repeas. The total capital required, including collieries, bya. product recovery plant, and 31 lakhs for work- ing capital, is estimated to be rupees two and the estimated profit at over 31 lakhs,
crores,
the
The perusal courteously permitted of the voluminous reports on this important under- taking, file ana with admiration for exhaustive and thorough enquiry that has been mado to every possible element of interest to
The forecast for the 24 hours sading at noon to-day is as followe
N.E, and E.. Hongkong & Neighbourhood winds, fresh
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