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INTIMATIONS

* 1911.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12..

CROSSLEY BROTHERS, LTD. OPENSHAW, MANCHESTER.

MAKERS OF:

GAS & OIL ENGINES,

***MARINE ENGINES.

MOTORS & MOTOR

GAS

CARS.

PLANTS

FOL POWEL

AND HEATING

PURIOAKS, TO

WORK WITH ALL

KINDS OF FUEL.

SUCTION

AND

PRESSURE SYSTEMS.

AMMONIA RECOVERY

PLANTS, &o,

HAVE ALREADY MANUFACTURED CLOSE UPON 70,000 ENGINES.

SEVERAL OF THESE ENGINES CAN BE SEEN NOW AT

WORK IN THE COLONY,

AGENTS FOR HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA:

W. R. LOXLEY & CO.,

YORK BUILDINGS.

IN PREPARATION. THE

DIRECTORY

AND

CHRONICLE 1911.

FOR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIPPINES. BORNEQ. ETC. Information for inclusion in the. 1911 Directory should be forwarded at nuce to the "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE,"

The DIRECTORY cover the whole of the perts and cities of the Far East, from Nether lands India to Siberto, in which Bropeane reside. Not only is the Directory as full completo in each case as it can be wide, but each Calany, Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP Port, OF TION, carefully revised euch your, most of which will serve as accurate Guints FOR THE TOURIST, giving every detail in eo with

PLAN OF THINGTau (Krochau). ELAS OF FOREIGN CONCRSION, SHANGHAI PLAN OF HONGKEW (Bandai) with Toset

Barwing the EXTENDED SETTLEMENT Lange Frax of THE CITY OF VICTORIA PLAN OF NEW TERRITORY (FOWLOON) FLAS OF KOWLCON PLANGE MANILA PLAN OFRATUON

c, &c.ELAN OF SINGAPORE

the places, their History, Descriptions, PLAN OF BATAVIA

ונאלי

The Information in these aisting of a hundred inveresting tals, packed with fucts concisely

and containing matistics of this TRADE of each Country, bud Fort, would alone suffice to fit a large volume Royal Octavo-Complete with Fifteen Mays, and Plans, pp. 1,682 $10.00. Directory only

p.1,200, $0.00

+-

The Directories and Descriptions are of

CHINA

Peking

Tientsin

Peitaibo

Taku

Soochow Canton Chirkiang Wizopoa Nanking -Kowloon

Chinwangino Waku Luppa

Antung

Nowebwang

T'airen

Port Arther

Kowkiang

Hankow

Sanishui

Kingmoon

Manchurian Yochow Nazning

Trade Contres Shasi Wnchowfu

Ichang Kwangchauwau Chungking Pakhoi Hangohow Haibow Ningpo Lungchow Winckow Mangtzo Santa

Hokow Fecchow Szemaa

Chefoo

Weihaiwoi Kiaochau Tsinaafu

Makden

Shanghai

Tokyo

Yokohama

Hyoge

Kobe

Amoy

Swatow

JAPAN AND FORMOSA

A RUBBER ROMANCE.

ronchem 1,000, the great majority being from out- stations, principally estates. The planter is not often in town, but it is here that his pent- A day distant from picturesque Penang, up eruberance generally finds vent, for in his where the Western traveller obtains bis first own environment he has come to know the raal. glimpse of romantic Malaya, is a remarkable meaning of a great loneliness. Away on the town whose name, Kuala Lumpur, is literally edges of the jungle, on his estate, witli perhaps "Mud" or "Madmouth," the capital of Belana large and occasionally not vary tractable, gor and the Federated Malay States, the 'ather Tamil labour force to control, and the stornal end of the evor-moving rubber see-saw and the difficulties of "crimping to contend with, his planters' meeting place.

days oro drab-coloured and his evenings tinged with gloom.

Kuala Lumpur is par excellence the rubber town, and Selangor the rubber State, for the It is a wonderful community, too, this of the industry has been the means by which they have planter. Heterogeneous in character, it is emerged from a nebulous paat in a country which drawn from strange places, mud represents overy at once suggest to the uninitiated wild life, profession, trade, or occupation under the sau. the jungle, ferers, and a precarious existence, into An ex-doctor drinks with the relativo of 0. a condition of prosperity and well-ordered govern famous English soap manufacturer, or a son of Dant, with handsome public buildings and offices, great novelist forms one of a merry gathering magnificent roads, and a dozen and one other of hight spiri s sitting at a round table, and possessions and characteristics, which are the discusses rubber with a nephew of an AR.A., a outward indications of real and substantial pro well-known Blue, or bronzed wanderers from gross. All this has been abhieved within a single the Geld Coast, the Congo, or South Afrion. dondo. Tho rapidity of development has boonYesterday they were occupied in pursuits as far extraordinary. Shortly after British Residents aundered as the poles. Many of the crowd have were first appointed in the Fedemted Malay fought and warkod .in atrange places, States a small band of planters frou Ceylon have followed where fancy led; sometimes made an application to the Government for where mocessity dictated. In their ranks are included officers of line regiments, artillery, large tract of land-100,000 aeros-for "agri. cultural purposes." Diloulties arose concerning an actor, a brower, à newspaper-seller, a railway the length of lease, and they abandoned their carriage cleaner, a commercial traveller, bank intention,

clerks, anilor, school-masters, a pearl fisher, a South American rencher, a corporal of Dragoons, a survivor of Stanley's expedition, doctors, law and mining atients, a county cricketer, ex- President of the Oxford Union, and a chiokon former!

And the telegraphic address of most of them is now Klumpur.J. H. B. S. in Evening

They had realised the country's possibilities, but they were too soon, and Malays, which had for years depended on lin for its revenue continued to devote its attention to sending hugs quantities to the smolting wrks at Singapore and Province Wellester of the traits Trading Company, Tas tiú is still mined and smelted, but Kuala Lumpar nowadays | Standard. las little to do with the white metal. Many of the mines in the neighbourhood aroinactivo, but- the rubber trees are thick on scores of planta. tions for many miles arouad, and the empty spaces are still being foverishly Billed with the bright green faved trees which gave London a "boom will not soon forget. In six years, it is estimated, by careful computation, that the Malay Peninsula will be producing 70,000 tons of rubber, and, in spite of criticism, thero is no reason to suppose that this estimate will be found to be other than a conservative one.

A for years ago plantors in the Federated Malay States were counted in hundreds. There are several thousand now, the State of Solgtiger alone accounting for 1,000, and the mail steamers continue to add to the number month by month. The industry flads room for them all, and will continue to afford openings for many more. The census, preparations for which are now boing made, will be a revelation. It will, in plain ligures, tell the story of a country of now arrivals, and men who six or seven years ago hard dreamed of Malay's existence, and could not put their finger upon their present home on a map. The "grifins" outnumber the older generation

br four to one.

The old days, when a small and select buneli of Government servants and an equally small coterie of business roen comprised the European community, are desd. Like the flow of miling prospectors into a new El Dorado, the planters have swarmed over the fans of the land and they are making this far-away peninsula, the plata- tion rubber garden of the world. Here in the beart of this vast tract of estats eddy all the little social currents. Three years ago one of Kuala Lumpur's most cherished. possessions *clab-house Was a worn-looking diminutive facing a broad "padang," irreverently known in this sun-Blooded corner of Asia as the "Spotted Dog." Near the entrance was th mounted hend of B "Bladang." vicious. eyed, and tendons, a trophy of the jungle.. From this randezvous near the centre of the lewa, the Tuan," hate in the afternoon, would

The CHRONICLE covers the notable events of the last half century in the Far East together with the Terta of all the most important Treaties concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, the varioum Customsa. Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Chanters of Commerce, Seates of Commissions Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Duties, Tocin Guide, Signal Codes, Chinee Festivals Tables of Morey, Weights and Sensires, and other Cotumercial Informationally forth with willow or hockey stick in search

including -

TREATS WITH CHINA Great Britain: Nanking, 1842: Tientsin, 1858, Tariff Agreement and Rules, 1850: Convention, 1860, Kules fir Joint Investiga tion of Customa Seizures, 1869; Chefoo,

with Additional Artide; Opium Can- tion, 86: Chungking Convention. 1801; Tiber kin Convention, 1890 Bunnah. Convention, 1807; Kowloon Extension, 1998; Weihaive, 1898. Convention, Commercial, Shanghai, 1902 Lanigration Convention,

France-Tientsin. 1858; Convention, 1869); Tentsin 1885; Conventions, 1880, 1887 akl 1805;

Frontier Trade Kagılatinas, " Valied States:Tientsin, 1858; Additional, 1868; Peking, 1830; Immigration, 1894; Cmmercial, 1909. Germany-Tientsin,

Peking, 1880; Convention, 1388; Bailway and Concession, 1898.

Osakя lenlul

Tainunfu Moji

Takow

.་

Shimono shi

Narusaki

Hakodata Anping

Temeni

EASTERN SIXERIA

Vladivostock

Nicojowsk

CHOSEN

Seoul

Tonson - Mokpo

Chemulpo

Fusan

Kunsan

Chizuampo

Pingyang Songchin

HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

FRENCH INDO-CHINA?"

MACAO

AHUAN Hus.

Hanoi Haiphong Tonkin Provinces Quinbon

Manda

Sarawak

PHILIPPINES

Iloilo HORNEO

Tourano Saigon Cambodge

Coin

Labuan - British N. Borneo

BANGKOK. STRAITS BETTLEMENTS Eingapore, Penang, Malacca, Prox. Wellesley

MALAY STATES

Johore

Pahang

Sungai Ujong Selangor Jelebu

NETHERLANDS INDIA

Batavia Buitenzorg

Soumraug

Ferak

Padang Macassar

Souraba East Coast of Sumstra NAVAL SQUADRONS -

British

Gormany Austrian Fronch

«Гарапево

United States Siamese Italian OFFICERS OF CUART AND RIVER STEAMER The Book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the trpone, and uniformity in every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.

the

and

A feature in the 1911 Edition we

TEADES LISTS of CLASSIFIED PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Gentres.

The ALPHABETICAL: LIST contains the names of over

1881:

Jap: Shimonoseki, 1995; Linating Con- vention, 1895; Commercial, 1896; New Port 1896; Supplententary Commercial, 1903. Russian-St. Petersburg, 1891; Russian Land

Trade, 1881.

Portugal, 1898;

Commercial Treaty, 1904. FINAL PROTOCOL ade between China and

Eleven Powers, 1901,

TREATIES WITH Japan Great Britain, 1894; Duties Convention, 1895; Russia, Agreements as to Corea; Urized States, Extradition Treaty, 1888; Great Britain (Alliance) 1906; Rinssia (Peace Treasy) 1905,

TREATIES WITHY COREA Japan, 1878; Japan Supplementary, 1876; Japan, 1901 and 1905. United States, 1882; Great Britain, 1995.

TREATIES WITH SIAM

Great Tritain 1886; 1880 and 1909, France,

1898 and 1904; Jajan, 1893; Russin, 1899. Great Britain and France, Bixaese Frontier. Great Britain and Russia, Railway Convention,

1809.

CUSTOMS TARIFFS TRADE REGULATIONS

China, Japan, Siam, Corea.

LEGAL DOCUMENTS Orders in Council for Government of H.B.M.% Adjects in Chins and Corea, and its Siam Rates of H.B.M's Supreme and other Courts in China, &c.; Tables of Court and Consular Foes; Charter of the Colony of Hong kong; Malay States Tederation Agreement; Table of Hongkong Court Foes; Admir- alty Rules; Foreign Jurisdiction Act; Regu-" lations for the Consuler-Courts of United Slatea; United States Consular and Court Fees; Rules of Court of Consuls of Shanghai Chinese Passenger Act; Hongkong Licences, Trade Marks, and Letters Patent Fees; Fort Regulations for Chinn; Harbour Begulations for Japan.

The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, al- though condensed in every possible tanner, of RESIDENTS] tains every year more pages.

It was years ago universally pronounced to te the cheapest work of the kid anywhere 20,000 FOREIGNERS, carefully arranged, with the Instinks as well as published, and although very much enlarged way, the price in silver

is now below

the Surnames in strictly Alphabetical Order, and improve do equivalent of al be, at which -90 that any name can be found instantly.

it was originally publiated.

THE MAPS AND PLANS

have been engraveil by one of the most eminent Firms in Great Britain and are corrected and brought up to date. They consist this year of the following:-

COLOURED PLATE OF FLAGS OF FOREIGN HONIS MAT OF THE FAR EAST

PLAN OF YOKOHAMA

PIAN OF KORE AND HYOGO PEAN OF FOREIGN ETTLEMENTS, TIERKIN

It is published at the Office of the Hongkang Daily Press, and can he had from, and Adver tisemente sent through the principal Book-

ellers in Asia and through-

LONDON .....

"Hongkong Daily Eress Of

11, Fleet Street, E.C. LONDON......Mr. F. Algar, 11, Clement's, Ll LONDON...Mesers. G. Street & Co, Tal.

30 Cornhill, EC.

of recreation, nud perehance also to teach the native the art of Western games. In the bui'd- jog, the sparse collection of Europeans read the month-old periodicals, played billiards, and dis.. cussed the failure of the Gre-engine or the latest jungle murder-and then went home to dinner and bod. A man's neighbour then was nearer than a brother. A new club, one of the finest in the East, largo and commodious, with bread verandahs, reading and billiard rooms, has

arison on the destruction of the old building,

and in the cool of the evening, when a bans plays on the fawn, a long string of motor-cary may be seen waiting in charge of Malap chauffeurs, near the portico. The membershid

BARCLAY,

PERKINS'

FAMOUS

LONDON STOUT.

S.

MAIL LINES.

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

SEMI-TROPICAL

ROUTE.

Only Line taking the warm. SOUTHERN ROUTE. «cróss fla' PACIFIC VIA HONOLULU, OAHU, the most Fertile and Beautiful Island of the PACIFIC.

(SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.)

SAILING DATES.

PROPOSED. SAILING FROM HONGKONG.

*

STEAMERS. MANCHURIA

TONS

27,000

SATURDAY,

↑ CHIYO MARU"

.21,000

*MONGOLIA

27,000

AMERICA MARU

... FRIDAY,

+ TENYO MARU

21,000

18.000

+ NIPPON MARU

11,000

18,000

PERSIA

• KOREA

• SIBERIA

Twin Serowe.

21st Jan, all! P.M. SATURDAY, 23th Jan., at 1 P.M. SATURDAY, 11th Feb, at PM.

17th Feb.,

t1 F... 24th Feb., at 1 P.M 3rd Marol, at LAM. 10th March, at I F.M 17th March, at 1 P.M. 24th March, at 1. 1-Viz Manila.

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY,

FRIDAY,

FRIDAY,

Tripla Sorow Steamer. All Steamers are Equipped with Wireless Telegraphy. THE P.M. $.8. "MANCHURIA" will bò despatched for SAN FRANCISCO VIA SHANGHAI NAGASAKI, KODE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU, 01 SATURDAY, 21st January, at 1 P.M.

THE

FARES: HONGKONG To LONDON £71 10%. Orl. RETURN, SIX MONTHS, £120; 24 Moxins, £125; INCLUDỊNG BERTH AND MEALS ́ ́ACROSS AMERICA.

SPECIAL RATES (First Class Only) Granted upon Application. To European Points: Officials of any European Naval, Military, Diplomacy, Consular and/or Civil Servicos located in Asia, to European Officials in the Services of the Governmenta of Ching and Japan. To United States Points, Commissioned Offices of the United States -Army, Navy, US. P.H. & N,H. Services, U.S. Consul Generals, Consuls and Vico-Consuls stationed at Ports of Call, To United States and Canadian Points: Membors of tho Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Consular Officials of the Goverments of China and Japan, Thass Special Rates apply when travelling at their own expilase and to their families. To all pointai

Missionaries and their families.

INTERMEDIATE SERVICE.

CHINA... .10,200 Tons......SATURDAY, 14th Jan., at 1 -P.M. ASIA.... .... 9,500 Tons:.....SATURDAY, atlı Feb., at 1 P.M.

THE 8.9. “CHINA" will leave for SAN FRANCISCO VĨA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU, on SATURDAY, 14th January, at 1 P.M On the Fine MAIL Steamers, ASIA and CHINA, FIRST Class. SALOON SERVICE is furnished at Intermediate Bates, FARES, HONGKONG 10 LONDON via New York HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO

The

Leading Brand

via Canadian Atlantic Poris. £43.

£45.

19

17

что

£25.

in

Through Bills of Lading issued to Japan, North, Central and South American l'orts. For further information as to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Companies, KING'S BUILDING-(opposite Blake Pier).............

FRED J. HALTON, AGENT.

ENGLAND.

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The

best that can

be obtained.

SOLD

BRO

IVERYWHERE

SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA:

PORTLAND & ASIATIC S.S. CO.

OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION CO.

Fos PORTLAND, via MANILA MOJI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

(WITH LITEETY TO CALL AT HONOLULU AND SAN FRANCISCO.)

STEANGHIT

"RYGJA"

TONS.

CAPTAIN

Eivind Meyer...

TO SAIL

A 3,807

On 21st Jan., at Noon.

Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Eastern Canadian and United States Points. For through rates of Freight-and further information, communicate with or apply to

FRED J. FALTON,

King's Building (Opposite Blake Pier).

DADY BURJOR&Co. PENINSULAR

Wholesale Wine & Spirit Merchants,

147

NORD DEUTSCHER LLOYD. BREMEN

MAIL IMPERIAL GERMAN

LINES.

FOR

SHANGHAI, TSINGTAU, KOBET

YOKOHAMA ...

B

MANILA, YAP, ANGAUR, NEW GUINEA, BRISBANE, SYDNEY

& MELBOURNE

LUDAT

$ SANDAKAN

STEAMERS

- DERFFLINGER 17,000

Capt. G. MEELS

AGENT,

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& ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

HOMEWARD

PASSENGER SEASON 1911.

FOR

PROPOSED SAILINGS OF MAIL STEAMERS MARSEILLES AND

TAKING PASSENGEES. ALSO FOR

LONDON.

COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, BRINDISI, &0. THROUGH TICKETS ISSUED TO BOSTON AND NEW YORK,

Das

Due MARSEILLES -PLYMOUTH

(London (Brindisi

TONS

TO BAIL,

STEAMERS

to

COLOMBO

Loave

HONGKONG

Connecting Steamers |

frem COLOMBO to MARSEILLES & LONDON 2 days earlier)] 1 day later)

Abont 11th January,

6,100

5,050 Middle of Jan.

Saturday, 28th.

fan,, at D'light

Steamer

DELHI-8000

7000 ARCADIA. ASSAYE

***** 7500 MARMORA.. 10500 DEVANHA 8000 DELHI ASSAYE

Tons 1 r.M. SATURDAY

February 4

Steiner

Toas

SATURDAY

FEIDAT

MANTUA......11000

March 4

March 10

February 18

MALWA .....11000

March 18

March 24

March

4

MACEDONIA, 10500

April 1

Apr 7

March

18

(Through Steamer

.

calling at BOMBAY).

April 15

April 21

April

1

MOLDAVIA...10000

April 29

May

5

9000 April 7500 DELTA......... 8000

15

MONGOLIA.....10000

May 13

May 19

April

MOREA

.......11000

May 27

June 2

May

73

MOOTTAN ...10000

June 10

June 16

"PRINZ WALDEMAR”.

Capt. F. ISZRE, "BORNEO"

Capt. F. SEMBIL

All the Steamers of the European Tine are fitted with Wireless Telegraphic. System of Telefunken.

For Further Partionlara, apply to

Hongkong, 4th January, 1911,

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co.,. GENERAL AGENTS HONGKONG & CHINA,

!

PASSENGER SEASON 1911.

IN 25 DAYS TO ITALY

BY THE

MAGNIFICENT N.D.L. LINERS:

PRINZESS ALICE Capt. P. GROSCH. LUETZÓW"

DISPLACEMENT,

286-A

Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO, and those for BRINDISI transfer also. to the Express Mail Steamer at PORT SAID. Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definituly served in

Hongkong or at the time of Booking. FARES TO LONDON (Including Surtox): 1ST SALOON £71.10 SINGLE.

2ND

£48.8

£106.14 RETURN € 72.12

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS

INTERME DAITS(NON-TRANSHIPMENT) STEAMERS WILI DEALE

LONDON

CARRYING SALDON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RÄ

PROPOSED SAILINGS:

STEAMENS

20,300 ON MARCH 22ND.

• SUNDA

17,300 - ON APRIL

бун.

NUBIA

• SYRIA

Capt. B. WILHELMİ

*NORE.

“KLEIST **

17,000

ON APRIL 19TH.

* BORNEJ

• SICILIA

:* SUMATRA

* NILE.

Capt. O. PAHNEE..

CALLING AT NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR AND SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERS,

All the Steamers of the European Liu are fitted with Wireless Telegraphio. New System of Teløsur sen,

Early booking recommended,

For Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 10th November, 1910.

* PALAWAN

Leave HONGKONG

Tonnage

about

4700 January

25

-5900

February

6660

March

6700

March

4700

April

.4600

April

19

6700

4600

J4

May

31

6700

June

14

These Steamore call also at SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, Qui

FARES TO LONDON. (Including Surtax):

1er BALOON £55.0 SINGLE. £2Ž10 RETUR 2WD

£38 10

MELCHERS & Co.,

• Carry 1st, mid 2nd Saloon Passengera. For further Player, apply to

GENERAL AGENTS.

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€57.4

E. A.

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